Jeff Elman Home Page

Professor
Department of Cognitive Science

Office: Cognitive Science Bldg, room 271
Phone:  (858) 534-1147
Fax:    (858) 534-6788
Cell:   (858) 602-6648
Mail:   Department of Cognitive Science, 0515
        University of California, San Diego
        9500 Gilman Drive
        La Jolla, CA 92093-0515
Email:  internet: elman@cogsci.ucsd.edu or elman@crl.ucsd.edu
ICQ:    60827587

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rethinking innateness A Connectionist Perspective on Development

Rethinking Innateness A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations

Morris W.C., Cottrell, G.W., & Elman, J.L. (in press). A connectionist simulation of the empirical acquisition of grammatical relations. In Stefan Wermter and Run Sun (Eds.) Hybrid Neural Symbolic Integration. Springer Verlag. Adobe PDF version; Compressed postscript.
Rodriguez P., Wiles, J., & Elman, J.L. (1999). A recurrent neural network that learns to count. Connection Science, 11, 5-40. Adobe PDF version.
Seidenberg, M., & Elman, J.L. (1999). Do infants learn grammar with algebra or statistics? Letter to Science commenting on Marcus et al., 1999. Science, 284, April 16, 1999; p 433. HTML.
Seidenberg, M., & Elman, J.L. (1999). Networks are not 'hidden rules'. Trends in Cognitive Science, 3, 288-289. Adobe PDF version.
Elman, J.L. (1999). The emergence of language: A conspiracy theory. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.) Emergence of Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. Adobe PDF version.
Elman, J.L. (1998). Generalization, simple recurrent networks, and the emergence of structure. In M.A. Gernsbacher and S.J. Derry (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Adobe PDF version; Compressed postscript.
Elman, J. L. (1998). Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems: New approaches to old questions. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.) A Companion to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Basil Blackwood. Adobe PDF version; Compressed postscript.
Bates, E. Elman, J., Johnson, M., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Parisi, D., & Plunkett, K. (1998). Innateness and emergentism. In W. Bechtel and G. Graham (Eds.) A Companion to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Basil Blackwood. Adobe PDF version; Compressed postscript.
Bates, E., & Elman, J.L. (1997). Learning rediscovered: A perspective on Saffran, Aslin, and Newport. Web page from Science; (Adobe PDF version; Compressed postscript); see also subsequent letters to Science in reply.
Elman, J. L. (1995). Language as a dynamical system. In R.F. Port & T. van Gelder (Eds.), Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 195-223. HTML viewable version; Compressed postscript.
Wiles, J., & Elman, J. L. (1995). Learning to count without a counter: A case study of dynamics and activation landscapes in recurrent networks. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. HTML viewable version; Compressed postscript; Adobe PDF version.
Hare, M. Elman, J.L. , & Daugherty, K.G. (1995) Default generalization in connectionist networks. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 601-630. Adobe PDF version.
Hare, M., & Elman, J.L. (1994). Learning and morphological change. Cognition. Adobe PDF version. HTML viewable version
Nolfi, S., Elman, J.L., & Parisi, D. (1994). Learning and evolution in neural networks. Adaptive Behavior, 3:1, 5-28. Compressed postscript.
Elman, J.L. (1993). Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small. Cognition, 48, 71-99. Adobe PDF version.
Bates, E., & Elman, J.L. (1993). Connectionism and the study of change. In M.H. Johnson (Ed.), Brain Development and Cognition: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 623-642. HTML viewable version.
Weckerly, J., & Elman, J.L. (1992). A PDP approach to processing center-embedded sentences. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. HTML viewable version; Compressed postscript.
Elman, J. L. (1991). Distributed representations, simple recurrent networks, and grammatical structure. Machine Learning, 7, 195-224. Compressed postscript.
Elman, J.L. (1990). Finding structure in time. Cognitive Science, 14, 179-211. Adobe PDF version; Compressed postscript. [An earlier version of this paper appeared as CRL Technical Report 8801. That TR is no longer available and has been superseded by the published version.]
For other papers, see CRL Home Page (below, under CRL Publications), or go to the CRL ftp archive.