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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