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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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The Interaction Model of Letter Perception

Rommel Hart and I created a model called the interactive activation model of letter perception. We built it out of a set of neuron like processing units that are just connected to each other with connection weights. And because these connections are bidirectional, if you have prior knowledge that it might be the word time that starts to prime the feature to the letters and features, then it has to start bottom up. But the directionality just depends on where the information comes in first.

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