James L. McClelland

83.5k citations
267 papers · 53.9k indexed · 24 hit papers · h-index 89

James L. McClelland

257 papers receiving 50.2k citations

Hit Papers

Parallel Distributed Processing1979202619942010198619951981198919872.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k

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James L. McClelland
Comparison fields: 5 of 229
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 29.0k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 17.9k
  • Artificial Intelligence 14.7k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 9.5k
  • Social Psychology 4.4k
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All Works

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How Language Affects Thought in a Connectionist Model
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Did, Made, Had, Said: Capturing Quasi-Regularity in Exception
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A Hippocampal Model of Recognition Memory
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Learning Representations by Recirculation
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Mechanisms of sentence processing: assigning roles to constituents
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Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 2: psychological and biological modelsbreakdown →
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About James L. McClelland

James L. McClelland is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 267 papers that have together received 53.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Reading and Literacy Development (53 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (51 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (45 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (29.0k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (17.9k citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (9.5k citations). James L. McClelland has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include David E. Rumelhart, Mark S. Seidenberg, Randall C. O’Reilly, Bruce L. McNaughton, Jeffrey L. Elman, Marius Usher, Timothy T. Rogers, Karalyn Patterson, David C. Plaut and Axel Cleeremans. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

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