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James L. McClelland

James L. McClelland

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Psychology

D-Index
113
Citations
123269
World Ranking
347
National Ranking
219

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin
  • 2002 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James L. McClelland is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the field of Computer Science, focusing on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Developmental and Educational Psychology, among others. The subfields of study in their work include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Statistics and Probability.

The main topics explored in McClelland's research include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

McClelland has contributed to academic literature with notable recent publications such as:

  • Integration of new information in memory: new insights from a complementary learning systems perspective, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Placing language in an integrated understanding system: Next steps toward human-level performance in neural language models, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent publication venues reflect these interests and include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PNAS Nexus

Throughout their career, McClelland has collaborated regularly with several researchers, notably:

  • Andrew K. Lampinen
  • Felix Hill
  • Ishita Dasgupta
  • Stephanie C. Y. Chan
  • Bruce L. McNaughton

McClelland's awards include:

  • Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin, 2005
  • Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville, 2002
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1996
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1993

Best Publications

  • Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Foundations

    David E. Rumelhart;James L. McClelland;Au

  • Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1: foundations

    David E. Rumelhart;James L. McClelland

  • An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings.

    James L. McClelland;David E. Rumelhart

  • Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory.

    James L. McClelland;Bruce L. McNaughton;Randall C. O'Reilly

  • A Distributed, Developmental Model of Word Recognition and Naming.

    Mark S. Seidenberg;James L. McClelland

  • The TRACE model of speech perception.

    James L McClelland;Jeffrey L Elman

  • Understanding normal and impaired word reading: computational principles in quasi-regular domains.

    David C. Plaut;James L. McClelland;Mark S. Seidenberg;Karalyn Patterson

  • On learning the past tenses of English verbs

    David E. Rumelhart;James L. McClelland

  • On the control of automatic processes: A parallel distributed processing account of the stroop effect

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Kevin Dunbar;James L. McClelland

  • The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model.

    Marius Usher;James L. McClelland

  • On the time relations of mental processes: An examination of systems of processes in cascade.

    James L. McClelland

  • An Interactive Activation Model of Context Effects in Letter Perception: Part 2. The Contextual Enhancement Effect and Some Tests and Extensions of the Model

    David E. Rumelhart;James L. McClelland

  • Schemata and sequential thought processes in PDP models

    D. E. Rumelhart;P. Smolensky;J. L. McClelland;G. E. Hinton

  • Distributed memory and the representation of general and specific information.

    James L. McClelland;David E. Rumelhart

  • Exact solutions to the nonlinear dynamics of learning in deep linear neural networks

    Andrew M. Saxe;James L. McClelland;Surya Ganguli

  • Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

    Timothy T. Rogers;James L. McClelland

  • Hippocampal conjunctive encoding, storage, and recall: avoiding a trade-off.

    Randall C. O'Reilly;James L. McClelland

  • Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 2: psychological and biological models

    David E. Rumelhart;James L. McClelland

  • A computational model of semantic memory impairment: modality specificity and emergent category specificity.

    Martha J. Farah;James L. McClelland

  • Learning the structure of event sequences.

    Axel Cleeremans;James L. McClelland

  • Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructures of Cognition

    Geoffrey Sampson;David E. Rumelhart;James L. McClelland

  • An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: part 1.: an account of basic findings

    James L. McClelland;David E. Rumelhart

  • Phenomenology of perception.

    James L. Mcclelland

Frequent Co-Authors

Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Lori L. Holt
Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
David C. Plaut
David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University
Marius Usher
Marius Usher Tel Aviv University
Daniel Mirman
Daniel Mirman University of Edinburgh
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph University of Cambridge
Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jeffrey L. Elman
Jeffrey L. Elman University of California, San Diego

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