Professor of Social
Psychology
Department of
Psychology
University of
Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
Phone: (213) 740-2291
E-mail: Read@rcf.usc.edu
Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning Group
University of Southern California
|Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning Group| Center for the Social Uses of Interactive Media|Selected Publications|
We are a group of faculty and graduate students studying the application of connectionist (neural network) models to social reasoning and social behavior. In one project we are developing and testing a neural network model of personality. In a second project, we are developing a connectionist model of causal reasoning and impression formation. In a third project we are developing a connectionist model of attitude learning and attitude accessibility, as well as examining an attractor model of the development and change of coherent belief systems.
Associated Faculty
Stephen J.
Read (Psychology)
Lynn C. Miller (Annenberg School and Psychology)
In addition, a
number of individuals in a variety of other departments are also
actively investigating connectionist models (Linguistics, Psychology
(Cognitive and Clinical), Computer Science, and the Neural,
Informational, and Behavioral Sciences Program (NIBS)
Students
Aaron
Brownstein
Brian Monroe
Yang Yu
Dayan Gandhi
Resources:
Hardware
3 Macintosh computers (PowerMacintosh G4)
Software
Matlab
5.2 and neural network toolbox
Thagard's ECHO program for parallel constraint satisfaction models
MacOSX version of PDP++ simulation software
E-Mail
me with
questions and comments
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