James McClelland (psychologist)
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James Lloyd "Jay" McClelland, FBA (born December 1, 1948) is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the Psychology Department.[1] He is best known for his work on statistical learning and Parallel Distributed Processing, applying connectionist models (or neural networks) to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition and visual word recognition. McClelland is to a large extent responsible for the large increase in scientific interest in connectionism in the 1980s.
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James Lloyd McClelland | |
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Born | (1948-12-01) December 1, 1948 (age 75) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Columbia University University of Pennsylvania |
Awards | Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2002) Rumelhart Prize (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Website | stanford |
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