James McClelland
American psychologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1948 · age 77
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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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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Roger ShepardBoth received Rumelhart Prize
Mahzarin BanajiBoth received Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Elizabeth SpelkeBoth received C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
Stanislas DehaeneBoth received Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive SciencesMichael I. JordanBoth received Rumelhart Prize