Download or read book Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception II written by Howard Bowman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects together refereed versions of papers presented at the Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW 8). NCPW is a well-established workshop series that brings together researchers from different disciplines, such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, neurobiology, philosophy and psychology. The articles are centred on the theme of connectionist modelling of cognition and perceptionn. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings) • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) • Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings® (ISSHP® / ISI Proceedings) • Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) • CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences • CC Proceedings — Biomedical, Biological & Agricultural Sciences Contents:An Extended Buffer Model for Active Maintenance and Selective Updating (E J Davelaar & M Usher)Applying Forward Models to Sequence Learning: A Connectionist Implementation (D Theofilou, A Destrebecqz & A Cleeremans)Modelling Asymmetric Infant Categorization with the Representational Acuity Hypothesis (G Westermann & D Mareschal)Solving the Visual Expertise Mystery (C A Joyce & G W Cottrell)Through Attention to Consciousness by CODAM (J G Taylor)Modeling Visual Search: Evolving the Selective Attention for Identification Model (SAIM) (D Heinke, G W Humphreys & C L Tweed)A Temporal Attractor Framework for the Development of Analogical Completion (R Leech, D Mareschal & R Cooper)On the Evolution of Irrational Behaviour (J A Bullinaria)Reading, Sublexical Units and Scrambled Words: Capturing the Human Data (R C Shillcock & P Monaghan)and other papers Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in neural networks, artificial intelligence and psychology. Keywords:Neural Networks;Connectionism;Psychology;Perception;Cognition