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Psycoloquy 5(88): Representation in Modular Networks

REPRESENTATION IN MODULAR NETWORKS
Book review of Miikkulainen on Language-Network

Richard Cooper
Department of Psychology
University College London
London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

r.cooper@psychol.ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

The key feature in the success of DISCERN (1993) is not its connectionist underpinnings but the modularity inherent in its design. This modularity leads to the implementation of a version of Fodor's language of thought hypothesis. The question for connectionists, then, concerns whether such a language of thought is inevitable in modular connectionist systems.

Keywords

computational modeling, connectionism, distributed neural networks, episodic memory, lexicon, natural language processing, scripts.

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