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[Tom Shultz]

Subject: Abstract
Date: 23 March '93

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The following paper has been placed in the Neuroprose archive at 
Ohio State University: 

A Connectionist Model of the Development of Seriation

Denis Mareschal
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford

Thomas R. Shultz
Department of Psychology
McGill University

Abstract

Seriation is the ability to order a set of objects on some dimension 
such as size. Psychological research on the child's development of 
seriation has uncovered both cognitive stages and perceptual 
constraints. A generative connectionist algorithm, cascade-
correlation, is used to successfully model these psychological 
regularities. Previous rule-based models of seriation have been 
unable to capture either stage progressions or perceptual effects. 
The present simulations provide a number of insights about possible 
processing mechanisms for seriation, the nature of seriation stage 
transitions, and the opportunities provided by the environment for 
learning about seriation.

This paper will be presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of 
the Cognitive Science Society, University of Colorado, 1993. 


Instructions for ftp retrieval of this paper are given below.  If you 
are unable to retrieve and print it and therefore wish to receive a 
hardcopy, please send e-mail to shultz at psych.mcgill.ca

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FTP INSTRUCTIONS:

unix> ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (or 128.146.8.52)
    Name: anonymous
    Password: <your e-mail address>
    ftp> cd pub/neuroprose
    ftp> binary
    ftp> get mareschal.seriate.ps.Z 
    ftp> quit
unix> uncompress mareschal.seriate.ps.Z 


Tom Shultz
Department of Psychology
McGill University
1205 Penfield Avenue
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1
Canada

shultz at psych.mcgill.ca