Description - Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks by Gillian Cohen
This title analyzes the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and neural networks, this approach leads to re-evaluation of traditional theories: connectionist models lesioned to mimic the residual function of the damaged brain and rehabilitated to simulate the process of recovery suggest underlying mechanisms and challenge previous interpretations. In this reader, articles by leading international researchers are combined with linking commentaries that provide a context, highlight the conceptual themes and evaluate the evidence. The papers include coverage of the controversies surrounding explanations for category specificity in object recognition and for covert recognition of faces and words; the mechanisms underlying the use of regular and irregular past tenses; and the reading of regularly and irregularly spelled words. The challenges posed by connectionist models to assumptions about the nature of dissociations, the need for symbolic rule-based operations in language processing and the modularity and localisation of processes are assessed.
Buy Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks by Gillian Cohen from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks by Gillian Cohen
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
No Stock on Hand, Supplier Has No Due Date for Supply.
