James McClelland (psychologist)
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James Lloyd "Jay" McClelland,
Early life and education
McClelland was born on December 1, 1948, to Walter Moore and Frances (Shaffer) McClelland. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He married Heidi Marsha Feldman on May 6, 1978, and has two daughters.[2]
Career
In 1986 McClelland published Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition[3] with David Rumelhart, which some still regard as a bible for cognitive scientists. His present work focuses on learning, memory processes, and psycholinguistics, still within the framework of connectionist models. He is a former chair of the Rumelhart Prize committee, having collaborated with Rumelhart for many years, and himself received the award in 2010 at the Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.
McClelland and David Rumelhart are known for their debate with Steven Pinker and Alan Prince regarding the necessity of a language-specific learning module.
In fall 2006 McClelland moved to Stanford University from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a professor of psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. He also holds a part-time appointment as Consulting Professor at the Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU) within the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.
Awards
- Mind & Brain Prize[4]
- Grawemeyer Award in psychology, 2002[2]
- William W. Cumming prize from Columbia University, 1970[2]
- Research Scientist Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, 1981—86, 1987—97[2]
- Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1970—73[2]
- Rumelhart Prize, 2010[5]
- C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize, 2014[6]
In July 2017, McClelland was elected a
See also
- Artificial neural networks
- Cognitive science
- Connectionism
- Emergence
- TRACEmodel of speech perception
References
- ^ "James L. McClelland VITA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 1 Oct 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "Profile details: James Lloyd McClelland". Retrieved August 7, 2012.
- ISBN 9780262680530.
- ^ MIND & BRAIN PRIZE - Center for Cognitive Science
- ^ "Recipients". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
- ^ "Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science".
- ^ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.