50 years after the perceptron, 25 years after PDP: Neural computation in language sciences

• Main Author: Pablo Gomez (auth)
• Other Authors: Gary Lupyan (auth), Franklin Chang (auth), Julien Mayor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; computational linguistics; language acquisition; probabilistic cognition; Recurrent networks; connectionism; computational modeling; word learning; interactive processing; Speech Perception; language processing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This Research Topic aims to showcase the state of the art in language research while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the tremendously influential work of the PDP group, and the 50th anniversary of the perceptron. Although PDP models are often the gold standard to which new models are compared, t...