Article Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "pk": 33092,
    "title": "A Connectionist Model Of Instruction Following",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In this paper we describe a general connectionist model of \n\"learning by being told\". Unlike common network models of \ninductive learning which rely on the slow modification of con?nection weights, our model of instructed learning focuses on \nrapid changes in the activation state of a recurrent network. W e \nview stable distributed patterns of activation in such a network \nas internal representations of provided advice - representations \nwhich can modulate the behavior of other networks. W e sug?gest that the stability of these configurations of activation can \narise over the course of learning an instructional language and \nthat these stable pattems should appear as articulatedattractors \nin the activation space of the recurrent network. In addition \nto proposing this general model, we also report on the results \nof two computational experiments. In the first, networks are \ntaught to respond appropriately to direct instruction concerning \na simple mapping task. In the second, networks receive instruc?tions describing procedures for binary arithmetic, and they are \ntrained to immediately implement the specified algorithms on \npairs of binary numbers. While the networks in these prelim?inary experiments were not designed to embody the attractor \ndynamics inherent in our general model, they provide support \nfor this approach by demonstrating the ability of recurrent back?propagation networks to learn an instructional language in the \nservice of some task and thereafter exhibit prompt instruction \nfollowing behavior.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [],
    "section": "17",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47w9x9gz",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Noelle",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Garrison",
            "middle_name": "W.",
            "last_name": "Cottrell",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1995-01-01T18:00:00Z",
    "render_galley": null,
    "galleys": [
        {
            "label": "PDF",
            "type": "pdf",
            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33092/galley/24153/download/"
        }
    ]
}