1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145750103321

Autore

Dawson Michael R. W

Titolo

Minds and Machines [[electronic resource] ] : Connectionism and Psychological Modeling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-281-32278-4

9786611322786

0-470-75299-8

0-470-75298-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

006.32

153

Soggetti

Cognitive science

Connectionism

Psychoanalytic Theory

Cognitive Science

Models, Psychological

Models, Theoretical

Psychology

Psychological Theory

Behavioral Sciences

Investigative Techniques

Psychological Phenomena and Processes

Psychiatry and Psychology

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 The Kids in the Hall; 1.1



Synthetic vs. Analytic Traditions; 2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Modeling; 2.1 What is a Model?; 2.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Models; 3 Models of Data; 3.1 An Example of a Model of Data; 3.2 Properties of Models of Data; 4 Mathematical Models; 4.1 An Example of a Mathematical Model; 4.2 Mathematical Models vs. Models of Data; 5 Computer Simulations; 5.1 A Sample Computer Simulation; 5.2 Connectionist Models; 5.3 Properties of Computer Simulations

6 First Steps Toward Synthetic Psychology6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Building a Thoughtless Walker; 6.3 Step 1: Synthesis; 6.4 Step 2: Emergence; 6.5 Step 3: Analysis; 6.6 Issues Concerning Synthetic Psychology; 7 Uphill Analysis, Downhill Synthesis?; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 From Homeostats to Tortoises; 7.3 Vehicles; 7.4 Synthesis and Emergence: Some Modern Examples; 7.5 The Law of Uphill Analysis and Downhill Synthesis; 8 Connectionism as Synthetic Psychology; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Beyond Sensory Reflexes; 8.3 Connectionism, Synthesis, and Representation; 8.4 Summary and Conclusions

9 Building Associations9.1 From Associationism to Connectionism; 9.2 Building an Associative Memory; 9.3 Beyond the Limitations of Hebb Learning; 9.4 Associative Memory and Synthetic Psychology; 10 Making Decisions; 10.1 The Limits of Linearity; 10.2 A Fundamental Nonlinearity; 10.3 Building a Perceptron: A Nonlinear Associative Memory; 10.4 The Psychology of Perceptrons; 10.5 The Need for Layers; 11 Sequences of Decisions; 11.1 The Logic of Layers; 11.2 Training Multilayered Networks; 11.3 A Simple Case Study: Exclusive Or; 11.4 A Second Case Study: Classifying Musical Chords

11.5 A Third Case Study: From Connectionism to Selectionism12 From Synthesis to Analysis; 12.1 Representing Musical Chords in a PDP Network; 12.2 Interpreting the Internal Structure of Value Unit Networks; 12.3 Network Interpretation and Synthetic Psychology; 13 From Here to Synthetic Psychology; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling examines different kinds of models and investigates some of the basic properties of connectionism in the context of synthetic psychology, including detailed accounts of how the internal structure of connectionist networks can be interpreted. Introduces connectionist models as tools that are both synthetic and representational and which can be used as the basis for conducting synthetic psychology. Includes distinctively varied account of modeling, historical overview of the synthetic approach, and unique



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960282203321

Autore

Hurlbert C. Mark

Titolo

National healing : race, state, and the teaching of composition / / Claude Hurlbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2013

ISBN

9781457184598

1457184591

9781283742542

1283742543

9780874218367

0874218365

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Classificazione

LAN005000

Disciplina

808/.0420711

808.0420711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Social aspects - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; New Orleans: A Prayer; I. Cage : The Provincial Composition; Learning New Ways #1; Making a Past a Past and a Life a Life; 1975; The Most Important Class; 1980; Speaking of Love; "It Had Better Be Worth It"; The Use and Abuse of History; A New Beginning; The Babel Effect; A Question of Service; More Than One; International Composition #1; No New Colonialism, Then; Transcending Transnationalism?; International Composition #2; And to Go Beyond the Words; The Styles; Rhetorical Boundaries and Agency; Part of the Story

Rhetorical Traditions: A Statement about MethodologyFor Instance, a Mindful Rhetoric; Voices from the Dark;  Voices from the Light; Museum Pieces; Oh, Multicultural America; A Recent History, a Decent Future; What Will the Yard Sales Say?; II. Circulations : The Composing of Composition; Why Ezra?; Nationalism; Is It Patriotism or Is It Nationalism?; Critical Literacy; A Decent Nation; A Nation's Cultural



Centrism; When You Do the Research; The Global Nothing; And So?; In Other Words, It Carries Over; III. Key: The Composition Classroom; Exhibit A; What Are You Burning to Tell the World?

The Class WorkshopBooks; Why a Book?; Forewords; Ubuntu: Rhetorical Principles at Work; Mindful Teaching; When We Compose; National Recalcitrance; There Is No Rhetoric, but There Is Hope; The International Sustainable Literacy Project; IV. Uncaged: The International Future of Composition; Mistakes and Beyond; International Composition #3; On the Road with International Composition; World Englishes;  World Compositions; Securing Composition;  Saving the Planet; Learning New Ways #2; Coda; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"In National Healing, author Claude Hurlbert persuasively relates nationalism to institutional racism and contends that these are both symptoms of a national ill health afflicting American higher education and found even in the field of writing studies. Teachers and scholars, even in progressive fields like composition, are unwittingly at odds with their own most liberatory purposes, he says, and he advocates consciously broadening our understanding of rhetoric and writing instruction to include rhetorical traditions of non-Western cultures"--

"In National Healing, author Claude Hurlbert persuasively relates nationalism to institutional racism and contends that these are both symptoms of a national ill health afflicting American higher education and found even in the field of writing studies. Teachers and scholars, even in progressive fields like composition, are unwittingly at odds with their own most liberatory purposes, he says, and he advocates consciously broadening our understanding of rhetoric and writing instruction to include rhetorical traditions of non-Western cultures.  Threading a personal narrative of his own experiences as a student, professor, and citizen through a wide ranging discussion of theory, pedagogy, and philosophy in the writing classroom, Hurlbert weaves a vision that moves beyond simple polemic and simplistic multiculturalism. National Healing offers a compelling new aesthetic, epistemological, and rhetorical configuration."--