Jeffrey Elman

Jeffrey L. Elman is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a well-known psycholinguist and pioneer in the field of neural networks.

With Jay McClelland, he developed the TRACE model of speech perception in the mid-80s. TRACE remains a highly influential model that has stimulated a large body of empirical research.

In 1990, he introduced the Simple Recurrent neural network (aka 'Elman network'), which is a widely-used recurrent neural network that is capable of processing sequentially ordered stimuli. Elman nets are used in a number of fields, including cognitive science, psychology, economics and physics, among many others.

In 1996, he co-authored (with Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Elizabeth Bates, Mark H. Johnson, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett), the book "Rethinking Innateness" [cite book|last=Elman et al|first=Jeffrey|title=Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|year=1996|isbn= 026255030X] , which argues against a strong nativist (innate) view on development.

Elman is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the New Bulgarian University, and is the 2007 recipient of the [http://rumelhartprize.org David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science] . He is founding Co-Director of the [http://kibm.ucsd.edu Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind] at UC San Diego, Dean of Social Sciences, and holds the Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair.

ee also

TRACE model of speech perception

References

External links

* [http://crl.ucsd.edu/~elman Personal website]
* [http://www-cogsci.ucsd.edu UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science]
* [http://crl.ucsd.edu Center for Research in Language, UCSD]
* [http://kibm.ucsd.edu Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind, UCSD]
* [http://cognitivesciencesociety.org Cognitive Science Society]