Semantic cognition encompasses human performance based on knowledge about the properties of objects, relations among objects and word meanings. One approach to semantic cognition has arisen within the ...

I vividly recall that, when I was a graduate student in the late 1990s, on the bookshelves of the professors’ bookcases, I would often see the two volumes of Parallel Distributed Processing: ...

Parallel distributed processing (PDP) or connectionist models are systems that "learn without rules," thus providing an alternative to more traditional symbolic grammars. In this paper, a common ...