FROM NEURAL CONSTRUCTIVISM TO CHILDRENS COGNITIVE-DEVELOPMENT - BRIDGING THE GAP

Authors
MARESCHAL D SHULTZ TR
Citation
D. Mareschal et Tr. Shultz, FROM NEURAL CONSTRUCTIVISM TO CHILDRENS COGNITIVE-DEVELOPMENT - BRIDGING THE GAP, Behavioral and brain sciences, 20(4), 1997, pp. 571
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
20
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1997)20:4<571:FNCTCC>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Missing from Quartz & Sejnowski's (Q&S's) unique and valuable effort t o related cognitive development to neural constructivism is an examina tion of the global emergent properties of adding new neural circuits. Such emergent properties can be studied with computational models. Mod eling with generative connectionist networks shows that synaptogenic m echanisms can account for progressive increases in children's represen tational power.