Re: Clarifications about connectionism


Danilo Abbate wrote:
> Hi. I'm a computer science student and i'm writing a small paper for
a class
> about differencies between simbolic and connectionism point of view
on
> representation in insects brains. For the simbolic one i found
Gallistel's
> paper "Insect Navigation: Brains as Symbol-Processing Organs". I'm
finding
> difficult to find a clear connectionistic paper about these following
> argoments:
> 1) dead reckoning (measuring distancies and time)
> 2) recognizing landmarks
> 3) calculation of ephemeris in bees
> 4) any connectionistic explaination of the behavior shown by Dyer's
bees
> (experiment of 1987 where he show a behavioral demostration of bees
> knowledge of ephemeris)
>
> Can anyone of you address me to any resource, possibly on the net?
Grazie!
> Danilo Abbate
>


Hello Danilo. Besides the obvious route of searching on google.com, you
might also try searching on CiteSeer ...

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

They have many 1000s of PDF and other format files available for
downloading on AI and connectionism, etc. Once you get a first hit, the
page will have many links to similar papers. Eg,

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis?q=dead+reckoning

.