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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Literature review › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling developmental cognitive neuroscience
AU - Westermann, Gert
AU - Sirois, Sylvain
AU - Shultz, Thomas R.
AU - Mareschal, Denis
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - In the past few years connectionist models have greatly contributed to formulating theories of cognitive development. Some of these models follow the approach of developmental cognitive neuroscience in exploring interactions between brain development and cognitive development by integrating structural change into learning. We describe two classes of these models. The first focuses on experience-dependent structural elaboration within a brain region by adding or deleting units and connections during learning. The second models the gradual integration of different brain areas based on combinations of experience-dependent and maturational factors. These models provide new theories of the mechanisms of cognitive change in various domains and they offer an integrated framework to study normal and abnormal development, and normal and impaired adult processing.
AB - In the past few years connectionist models have greatly contributed to formulating theories of cognitive development. Some of these models follow the approach of developmental cognitive neuroscience in exploring interactions between brain development and cognitive development by integrating structural change into learning. We describe two classes of these models. The first focuses on experience-dependent structural elaboration within a brain region by adding or deleting units and connections during learning. The second models the gradual integration of different brain areas based on combinations of experience-dependent and maturational factors. These models provide new theories of the mechanisms of cognitive change in various domains and they offer an integrated framework to study normal and abnormal development, and normal and impaired adult processing.
KW - FUNCTIONAL BRAIN-DEVELOPMENT
KW - CONNECTIONIST NETWORKS
KW - NEURAL-NETWORKS
KW - INFANT
KW - MECHANISMS
KW - DISORDERS
KW - SYSTEMS
KW - SPECIALIZATION
KW - ACQUISITION
KW - PLASTICITY
U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.009
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.009
M3 - Literature review
VL - 10
SP - 227
EP - 232
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
SN - 1364-6613
IS - 5
ER -