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Extracting higher-level relationships in connectionist models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Gary F. Marcus
Gary F. Marcus
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 marcus@psych.umass.edu www-unix.oit.umass.edu/-marcus
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Abstract

Connectionist networks excel at extracting statistical regularities but have trouble extracting higher-order relationships. Clark & Thornton suggest that a solution to this problem might come from Elman (1993), but I argue that the success of Elman's single recurrent network is illusory, and show that it cannot in fact represent abstract relationships that can be generalized to novel instances, undermining Clark & Thornton's key arguments.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 77
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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