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Jeffrey Elman
Cognitive scientist whose simple recurrent network gave neural networks a memory of what came before.
Organizations
University of California, San Diego
Major Achievements
- •Introduced the Elman network (1990) in 'Finding Structure in Time', adding a context layer that feeds a network its own previous state.
- •Showed that recurrent networks could induce grammatical structure from sequences without being given the rules.
- •Shaped the connectionist account of language acquisition, arguing structure can emerge from learning rather than innate rules.
Key Papers
- Finding Structure in Time
Jeffrey L. Elman · Cognitive Science · 1990