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Rethinking innateness : a connectionist perspective on development
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Rethinking innateness : a connectionist perspective on development

Author: Jeffrey L Elman; et al
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Series: Neural network modeling and connectionism
Edition/Format: Book : eBook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet they are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way. One of the key contributions of  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey L Elman; et al
ISBN: 0262050528 9780262050524
OCLC Number: 34676688
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xviii, 447 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Neural network modeling and connectionism
Responsibility: Jeffrey L. Elman ... [et al.].

Abstract:

Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet they are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way. One of the key contributions of Rethinking Innateness is a taxonomy of ways in which a behavior can be innate. These include constraints at the level of representation, architecture, and timing; typically, behaviors arise through the interaction of constraints at several of these levels. The ideas are explored through dynamic models inspired by a new kind of "developmental connectionism," a marriage of connectionist models and developmental neurobiology, forming a new theoretical framework for the study of behavioral development. While relying heavily on the conceptual and computational tools provided by connectionism, Rethinking Innateness also identifies ways in which these tools need to be enriched by closer attention to biology.

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