James L. McClelland

The paper extends the successor representation theory of the cognitive map to explain rapid learning by incorporating salience-weighted representations and synaptic plasticity mechanisms.

The paper demonstrates that a neural network model with non-monotonic plasticity exhibits retrieval induced forgetting (RIF), supporting the non-monotonic plasticity hypothesis.

The paper uses artificial neural networks to model how consistency with prior knowledge affects memory integration speed and efficiency in hierarchical structures.

The paper models the N400 brain response as a change in an implicit probabilistic representation of meaning using a neural network, linking it to implicit learning and language processing.