# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-mcclelland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:39.139Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/james-mcclelland"
name: "James McClelland"
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description: "James Lloyd \"Jay\" McClelland, FBA is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the Psychology Department. He is best known for his work on statistical learning and Parallel Distributed Processing, applying connectionist models to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition and visual word recognition. McClelland is to a large extent responsible for the large increase in scientific interest in connectionism in the 1980s."
tagline: "American psychologist"
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birthDate: "1948-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump