Parallel Distributed Processing Algorithms for Human        Learning
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This research is an attempt to apply a new kind of computational                model, connectionist or parallel-distributed-processing models,                 to a number of complex, higher-level cognitive phenomena.  These                models are important, because a number of investigators claim                   that they are anatomically and physiologically more plausible                   than other sorts of models, and it is important to see how far                  they can go in accounting for the behavior of humans in the sorts               of cognitive experiments that psychologists typically run.                                                                                                      The first set of phenomena, involving attention and configural                  learning, includes the observation that over the course of                      discrimination learning, people come increasingly to "pay                       attention to" relevant cues, those that predict validly the                     correct response, and to ignore irrelevant cues.  The second set                of phenomena include generalization enhancement and distributed                 representations.  The third set of phenomena involves                           representation issues, the issue of how different featural                      representations of stimuli should be mapped onto connectionist                  models.  All of these issues will be approached with a                          combination of modeling and experimentation.
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