American cognitive scientist who co-authored Parallel Distributed Processing with Rumelhart and has contributed to connectionist models of language acquisition and memory.
Parallel Distributed Processing (1986, with Rumelhart): the foundational manifesto of connectionism. Connectionist models of reading: modeling how skilled readers process words through a network of letter, phoneme, and word units. Past tense acquisition: a connectionist model that learns regular and irregular past tenses without explicit rules.
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