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--- abstract: 'Human cognition is said to be systematic: cognitive ability generalizes to structurally related behaviours. The connectionist approach to cognitive theorizing has been strongly criticized for its failure to explain systematicity. Demonstrations of generalization notwithstanding, I show that two widely used networks (feedforward and recurrent) do not support systematicity under the condition of local input/output representations. For a connectionist explanation of systematicity, these results leave two choices, either: (1) develop models capable of systematicity under local input/output representations; or (2) justify the choice of similarity-based (nonlocal) component representations sufficient for systematicity.' altloc: - http://cogju.etl.go.jp/stevep/www/papers/systemffn-rn.ps chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Phillips given: S. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1998 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-12-10 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/05/20 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 520 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/520/2/systemffn%2Drn.ps full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'strong systematicity, connectionism, classicism, feedforward network, recurrent network, tensor network, weight sharing, local representation, compositionality, association, relation' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:01 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2 pagerange: 137-160 pubdom: FALSE publication: Connection Science publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 10 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:29:53 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-sci-neural-nets - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Are feedforward and recurrent networks systematic? Analysis and implications for a connectionist cognitive architecture' type: journalp userid: 470 volume: 10