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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
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La Jolla, CA 92093-0515
Email: internet: elman@cogsci.ucsd.edu or elman@crl.ucsd.edu
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rethinking
innateness
A Connectionist Perspective on Development


- 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.

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