Abstract
This book is the companion volume to Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist
Perspective on Development (The MIT Press, 1996), which proposed
a new theoretical framework to answer the question "What does it
mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The new work provides concrete
illustrations--in the form of computer simulations--of properties
of connectionist models that are particularly relevant to cognitive
development. This enables the reader to pursue in depth some of the
practical and empirical issues raised in the first book. The authors'
larger goal is to demonstrate the usefulness of neural network modeling
as a research methodology.
The book comes with a complete software package, including demonstration
projects, for running neural network simulations on both Macintosh
and Windows 95. It also contains a series of exercises in the use
of the neural network simulator provided with the book. The software
is also available to run on a variety of UNIX platforms.
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