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From neural constructivism to children's cognitive development: Bridging the gap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Denis Mareschal  and
Thomas R. Shultz
Denis Mareschal
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratories, Exeter University, Exeter, EX4 4QG, United Kingdomd.mareschal@exeter.ac.uk www.ex.ac.uk/psychology/staff/dmaresch.htm
Thomas R. Shultz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1 Canadashultz@psych.mcgill.ca www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/lnsc/html/lab-home.html
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Abstract

Missing from Quartz & Sejnowski's (Q&S's) unique and valuable effort to relate cognitive development to neural constructivism is an examination of the global emergent properties of adding new neural circuits. Such emergent properties can be studied with computational models. Modeling with generative connectionist networks shows that synaptogenic mechanisms can account for progressive increases in children's representational power.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 571 - 572
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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