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Connectionism 2003

Course Schedule Connectionism 2003

 

Course Schedule Connectionism 2003

 

Tuesday 13:00-15:00, zaal A-305

N.B. Many links are now temporary and will be updated when the lecture has been given.

Jaap Murre (jaap@murre.com)

URL: www.neuromod.org/connectionism2003

31 March Lecture 1: Introduction to Connectionism. .

7 April Lecture 2: Activations, Attractors, and Associators.

14 April. Introduction to Programming with Nutshell en Visual Basic (Robert Griffioen)
21 April No lecture.

28 April Lecture 3: Learning Neural Networks: Perceptron and Backpropagation.

5 May No lecture.

12 May  Lecture 4: Language, Rules, and Serial Processing in Neural Networks.

19 May Lecture 5: Modularal Neural Networks: SOM, ART, and CALM

26 May Lecture 6: Recognition and Motor Control

2 June Lecture 7: Connectionist Models of Memory

9 June No lecture.

16 June Lecture 8. Connectionism, Evolution, and the Brain

23 June Lecture 9. Connectionist Modeling: Problems and Solutions

 

 


30 June 13:00-15:00, A.103 Exam
Entire book Bechtel and Abrahamsen

 

25 August 13:00-15:00 Exam (second chance)

 

 

 

The course book will be: Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks by William Bechtel & Adele Abrahamsen.

  • Paperback: 356 pages
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishers; 2nd edition (December 2001)
  • ISBN: 0631207139
  • N.B. The old edition of their book is no longer suitable for the course.

    The entire book will be required reading for the exam, as well as the lecture sheets.


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