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Volume 3 - 1998

Issue 10. A Conversation About Superposition and Distributed Representation.

Hugh Clapin and Gerard O'Brien [html]

Issue 9. Mirror Neurons and the Motor Theory of Speech

John R. Skoyles [html]

Issue 8. It's About Time: Music as a Cognitive Skill

Papers written for the Australasian Cognitive Science Conference, University of Newcastle, September 1997.

Foreword: Kate Stevens. [html].
Article: Judith Sheridan and J. Devin McAuley. Rhythm as a Cognitive Skill: Temporal Processing Deficits in Autism [html].
Article: Peter Keller. The role of metric frameworks in the processing and representation of musical rhythm. [html].
Article: Jeffrey Pressing. Cognitive complexity and the structure of musical patterns. [html].
Article: Kate Stevens, J. Devin McAuley, & Michael S. Humphreys. Relational Information in Memory for Music: The Interaction of Melody, Rhythm, Text and Instrument [html]

Volume 2 - 1996

Issue 7. Memory, Time, Change and Structure in ANNs: Distilling Cognitive Models into their Functional Components

Papers written for the Cognitive Modelling Workshop of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Australian National University Canberra, 9 April 1996

Introduction: Janet Wiles and Devin McAuley. [html]
Case Study: Janet Wiles and J. Devin McAuley. Elman's SRN and the discovery of lexical classes. [html]
Case Study: J. Devin McAuley. Wang's Oscillator Model of Primitive Auditory Scene Analysis. [html]
Case Study: Allan Blair. Pollack's Recursive Auto-Associative Memory. [html]
Case Study: Bill Wilson. Tower networks and letter prediction. [html]
Case Study: Bradley Tonkes. Hadley's hybrid p-node network and semantic systematicity. [html]
Case Study: Ross Hayward and Joachim Diederich. SHRUTI: A model for reflexive reasoning. [html]
Case Study: Michael Norris. NETtalk. [html]
Case Study: John Kruschke. ALCOVE. [html]
Case Study: Janet Wiles. MLP model of hippocampus/neocortex. [html]
Case Study: Simon Dennis. The Hebbian Recurrent Network and recognition memory. [html]
Case Study: Lokendra Shastri and Dean J. Grannes. SHRUTI's treatment of negation and inconsistency. [html]

Volume 1 - 1995

Issue 6. Mathematical models of human memory: Tutorials

Introduction: Simon Dennis. [html].
Tutorial: Peter Butterworth and Simon Dennis. Theory of Distributed Associative Memory : A Tutorial [html].
Tutorial: Kerry Chalmers and Simon Dennis. Search of Associative Memory : A Tutorial [html].
Tutorial: Jill White and Simon Dennis. The Matrix Model : A Tutorial [html].
Simulator: Peter Nobel and Simon Dennis. A SAM Simulator [html][C code].
Simulator: David Diller, David Huber, Peter Nobel and Simon Dennis. A MATRIX Model Simulator [html][C code].
Simulator: David Huber, Peter Nobel and Simon Dennis. A TODAM Simulator [html][C code].

Issue 5. Introducing a new connectionist model: The spreading waves of activation network

Scott A. Gazzard [html]

Issue 4. The Sydney Morning Herald Word Database

Simon Dennis [html]

The first three issues of volume one are papers which were presented at the Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology which took place in January, 1994 at the Department of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia. Several of the commentaries were written after the symposium and make reference to speakers and papers in issues other than those in which they appear.

Issue 3. Computational processes over distributed memories

Introduction: Steven Schwartz [html]
Review: Janet Wiles. The Connectionist Modeler's Toolkit: A review of some basic processes over distributed memories [html].
Invited Commentary: Mike Johnson. On the search for metaphors. [html].
Invited Commentary: Zoltan Schreter. Distributed and Localist Representation in the Brain and in Connectionist Models [html]

Issue 2. The correspondence between human and neural network performance

Introduction: Cyril Latimer. [html].
Review: Kate Stevens. The In(put)s and Out(put)s of Comparing Human and Network Performance: Some Ideas on Representations, Activations and Weights [html]
Review: Graeme Halford and William Wilson. How Far Do Neural Network Models Account for Human Reasoning? [html].
Commentary: Steven Phillips. Understanding as generalization not just representation. [html]. [postscript].
Review: Simon Dennis. The Correspondence Between Psychological and Network Variables In Connectionist Models of Human Memory [html][html 3.0]
Commentary: Andrew Heathcote. Connectionism: Implementation constraints for psychological models. [html][html3.0][postscript].
Commentary: Phillip Sutcliffe. Contribution to discussion. [html].

Issue 1. The rationale for psychologists using (connectionist) models

Introduction: Peter Slezak. [html].
Target paper: Cyril Latimer. Computer Modeling of Cognitive Processes [html].
Invited Commentary: Max Coltheart. Connectionist Modelling and Cognitive Psychology [html].
Invited Commentary: Sally Andrews. What Connectionist Models Can (and Cannot) Tell Us [html].
Invited Commentary: George Oliphant. Connectionism, Psychology and Science [html]
Commentary: Paul Bakker. Good models of humble origins. [html]
Commentary: Richard Heath. Mathematical models, connectionism and cognitive processes. [html].
Commentary: Ellen Watson. Definitions and Interpretations: Comments on the symposium on connectionist models and psychology. [html].