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  COLLECTED PAPERS FROM A SYMPOSIUM ON CONNECTIONIST MODELS AND PSYCHOLOGY

   	(Eds) Janet Wiles, Cyril Latimer and Catherine Stevens.

			Technical Report No. 289
   		     Department of Computer Science, 
   	      University of Queensland, QLD 4072 Australia
			     February 1994
			       118 pages
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Contents

Preface: Danny Latimer, Catherine Stevens, and Janet Wiles

SESSION 1. THE RATIONALE FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS USING MODELS
Introduction:  Peter Slezak
Target paper:  Danny Latimer.  Computer Modeling of Cognitive Processes
Commentaries:
  Max Coltheart.  Connectionist Modelling and Cognitive Psychology
  Sally Andrews.  What Connectionist Models Can (and Cannot) Tell Us
  George Oliphant.  Connectionism, Psychology and Science

SESSION 2. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HUMAN AND NETWORK PERFORMANCE
Introduction:  Danny Latimer
Papers:
  Kate Stevens.  The In(put)s and Out(put)s of Comparing Human and Network 
        Performance: Some Ideas on Representations, Activations and Weights
  Graeme Halford.  How Far Do Neural Network Models Account for Human Reasoning?
  Simon Dennis.  The Correspondence Between Psychological and Network Variables 
        In Connectionist Models of Human Memory

SESSION 3. BASIC COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSES
Introduction:   Steven Schwartz
Target paper:   Janet Wiles.  The Connectionist Modeler's Toolkit:   A review 
	of some basic processes over distributed memories
Commentaries:
  Mike Johnson.  On the search for metaphors
  Zoltan Schreter.  Distributed and Localist Representation in the Brain and in 
        Connectionist Models

Discussion commentaries:
  Paul Bakker, Richard A. Heath, Andrew Heathcote, Steven Phillips,
  J. P. Sutcliffe, Ellen Watson