Neurocomputational Models of Cognitive Development and Processing

Proceedings of the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop

This volume presents peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW14), which took place in July 2014 at Lancaster University, UK. The workshop draws international attendees from the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in psychology, computational modeling, artificial intelligence and psychology, and aims to drive forward our understanding of the mechanisms underlying a range of cognitive processes.

Contents:

• Patchy Connectivity and Visual Processing Asymmetries: A Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis (B Cipollini and G W Cottrell)

• Neural Binding in Letter- and Word-Recognition (P H de Vries)

• Learning Bidirectional Connections between Areas with Standard Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (M Klein, A Cangelosi and T Wennekers)

• A Critique of Pure Hierarchy: Uncovering Cross-Cutting Structure in a Natural Dataset (J L McClelland, Z Sadeghi and A M Saxe)

• Implementing the "Simple" Model of Reading Deficits: A Connectionist Investigation of Interactivity (P Monaghan and A M Woollams)

• Dynamics of Word Learning in Typically Developing, Temporarily Delayed, and Persistent Late-Talking Children (C E Sims, S M Schilling and E Colunga)

• Complex Word Recognition Behaviour Emerges from the Richness of the Word Learning Environment (A C Smith, P Monaghan and F Huettig)

• How to Design Emergent Models of Cognition for Application-Driven Artificial Agents (S Thill and D Vernon)

• Competition Affects Word Learning in a Developmental Robotic System (K E Twomey, A F Morse, A Cangelosi and J S Horst)

• Readership:

• Key Features:

• The volume brings together studies of a spectrum of cognitive processes united by the common technique of computational modeling

  The papers generate many novel insights into the processes underlying cognition and cognitive development, and offer explicit, mechanistic accounts of the cognitive processes in question

  All papers describe recent advances in the field