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Processing limitations can help neural growth build hierarchical representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Gary Haith
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 haith@psych.stanford.edu white.stanford.edu/~haith

Abstract

Processing limitations can be an advantage for a learner (Elman 1993; Newport 1990; Turkewitz 1982). They can filter input to the learner so that the relations to be learned increase in complexity only gradually. The time-course of filtered input can complement the growing neural representations discussed by Quartz & Sejnowski.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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