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Connectionism, ACT-R, and the principle of self-organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Pavel N. Prudkov*
Affiliation:
Ecomon Ltd., Selskohosyastvennaya str 12-A, Moscow, Russia

Abstract:

The target article is based upon the principle that complex mental phenomena result from the interactions among some elementary entities. Connectionist nodes and ACT-R's production rules can be considered as such entities. However, before testing against Newell's macro-criteria, self-organizing models must be tested against criteria relating to the properties of their elementary entities. When such micro-criteria are considered, they separate connectionism from ACT-R and the comparison of these theories against Newell's Tests is hardly correct.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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