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James McClelland

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American psychologist

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1948 · age 77
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James Lloyd "Jay" McClelland, FBA is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the Psychology Department.

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2014C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
2014Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
2010Rumelhart Prize
2003William James Fellow Award
2002Grawemeyer Awards
1996APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
1993Howard Crosby Warren Medal
Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award

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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.

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Born 1948 · age 77
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