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    "pk": 31756,
    "title": "Generalization with Componential Attractors: Word and Nonword Reading in an Attractor Network",
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    "abstract": "Networks that leam to make familiar activity patterns into sta-\nble attractors have proven useful in accounting for many aspects\nof normal and impaired cognition. However, their ability to\ngeneralize is questionable, particularly in quasiregular tasks that\ninvolve both regularities and exceptions, such as word reading.\nW e trained an attractor network to pronounce virtually all of a\nlarge corpus of monosyllabic words, including both regular and\nexception words. W h e n tested on the lists of pronounceable\nnonwords used in several empirical studies, its accuracy was\nclosely comparable to that of human subjects. The network gen-\neralizes because the attractors it developed for regular words are\ncomponential—they have substructure that reflects common sub-\nlexical correspondences between orthography and phonology.\nThis componentiality is faciliated by the use of orthographic and\nphonological representations that make explicit the structured\nrelationship between written and spoken words. Furthermore,\nthe componential attractors for regular words coexist with much\nless componential attractors for exception words. These results\ndemonstrate that attractors can support effective generalization,\nchallenging \"dual-route\" assumptions that multiple, independent\nmechanisms are required for quasiregular tasks.",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Plaut",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Camegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "McClelland",
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            "institution": "Camegie Mellon University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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