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Currents in connectionism
Authors:William Bechtel
Affiliation:(1) Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, 30303 Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract:This paper reviews four significant advances on the feedforward architecture that has dominated discussions of connectionism. The first involves introducing modularity into networks by employing procedures whereby different networks learn to perform different components of a task, and a Gating Network determines which network is best equiped to respond to a given input. The second consists in the use of recurrent inputs whereby information from a previous cycle of processing is made available on later cycles. The third development involves developing compressed representations of strings in which there is no longer an explicit encoding of the components but where information about the structure of the original string can be recovered and so is present functionally. The final advance entails using connectionist learning procedures not just to change weights in networks but to change the patterns used as inputs to the network. These advances significantly increase the usefulness of connectionist networks for modeling human cognitive performance by, among other things, providing tools for explaining the productivity and systematicity of some mental activities, and developing representations that are sensitive to the content they are to represent.A version of this paper was the invited address at the first annual conference of the Society for Machines and Mentality in December, 1991. A related version was presented at the Computers and Philosophy Conference in August, 1992. I am extremely grateful to Adele Abrahamsen for her numerous suggestions and comments on various drafts of this paper.
Keywords:Connectionism  neural networks  expert networks  recurrent networks  RAAM networks
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