Rethinking Eliminative Connectionism
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Rethinking eliminative connectionism.
Humans routinely generalize universal relationships to unfamiliar instances. If we are told "if glork then frum," and "glork," we can infer "frum"; any name that serves as the subject of a sentence can appear as the object of a sentence. These universals are pervasive in language and reasoning. One account of how they are generalized holds that humans possess mechanisms that manipulate symbols ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Psychology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0010-0285
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1998.0694