1st Edition

Connectionist Approaches To Clinical Problems in Speech and Language Therapeutic and Scientific Applications

Edited By Raymond G. Daniloff Copyright 2002
326 Pages
by Psychology Press

328 Pages
by Psychology Press

328 Pages
by Psychology Press

Connectionist accounts of language acquisition, processing, and dissolution proliferate despite attacks from some linguists, cognitive scientists, and engineers. Although the networks of exquisitely interconnected perceptrons postulated by PDP theorists may not be anatomically homologous with actual brain anatomy, a growing body of research suggests that the posited network functions can support... Read more
Contents: Preface. J.A. Norris, P.R. Hoffman, Language Development and Late Talkers: A Connectionist Perspective. S.S. Christman, Dynamic Systems Theory: Application to Language Development and Acquired Aphasia. D.A. Gagnon, N. Martin, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Remediation of Acquired Naming Disorders From a Connectionist Perspective. D.M. Daly, Modeling Disordered Perception. E. Trentin, F. Brugnara, Y. Bengio, C. Furlanello, R. de Mori, Statistical and Neural Network Models for Speech Recognition. H.W. Buckingham, The Roots and Amalgams of Connectionism.

Biography

Raymond G. Daniloff