The Harmonic Mind, Volume 2: From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications - Paperback

by Paul Smolensky (Author), Geraldine Legendre (Author)

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation & those employing symbolic computation can strengthen one another. This work set develops a cognitive architecture based in neural computation, but supports formally explicit higher-level symbolic descriptions.