James L. McClelland

Research topics

• Reading and Literacy Development · 2 papers
• Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · 2 papers
• Memory and Neural Mechanisms · 1 paper
• Neural dynamics and brain function · 1 paper
• Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research · 1 paper
• Text Readability and Simplification · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Mark S. Seidenberg · 2 papers
• Bruce L. McNaughton · 1 paper
• Randall C. O’Reilly · 1 paper
• David C. Plaut · 1 paper
• Karalyn E. Patterson · 1 paper

Papers

1. Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory.Psychological Review · 1995 · 5,454 citations

   Damage to the hippocampal system disrupts recent memory but leaves remote memory intact. The account presented here suggests that memories are first stored via synaptic changes in the hippocampal system, that these changes support reinstatement of recent memories in the…

2. A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming.Psychological Review · 1989 · 3,852 citations

   A parallel distributed processing model of visual word recognition and pronunciation is described. The model consists of sets of orthographic and phonological units and an interlevel of hidden units. Weights on connections between units were modified during a training phase…

3. Understanding normal and impaired word reading: Computational principles in quasi-regular domains.Psychological Review · 1996 · 2,731 citations

   A connectionist approach to processing in quasi-regular domains, as exemplified by English word reading, is developed. Networks using appropriately structured orthographic and phonological representations were trained to read both regular and exception words, and yet were also able to read…