Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:04:16 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.2 Last-modified: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 19:29:01 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2255 Mark Seidenberg

Mark Seidenberg



Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, & Computer Science
University of Southern California
Ph.D., 1980, Columbia University
Phone: 213-740-9174
EMAIL: marks@gizmo.usc.edu


Research Interests

My research is primarily concerned with types of knowledge representations and processing mechanisms employed in language comprehension, especially reading. Some of this research involves computational modeling of the "connectionist" or "neural network" type. The goal of this work is a theory of language comprehension that accounts for detailed aspects of skilled performance, and can be related to the types of linguistic impairments that are observed both developmentally and as a consequence of brain injury. Current work is concerned with a model of word recognition in normal and dyslexic reading.

Representative Publications:

Seidenberg, M. (1993) Connectionist models and cognitive 
      theory.  Psychological Science, 4, 228-235.

Seidenberg, M. (1992) Connectionism without tears.  In 
      S. Davis (Ed.) Connectionism Advances in Theory
      and Practice.  Oxford University Press.

Patterson, K., Seidenberg, M., & McClelland, J. (1989).  
      Connections and disconnections:  Acquired dyslexia in 
      a computational model of reading processes.  In Morris, R. 
      (Ed.), Parallel distributed processing: Implications for psychology
      and neurobiology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Seidenberg, M., & McClelland, J. (1989).  A distributed 
      developmental model of word recognition and naming.  
      Psychological Review, 96, 523-568.

Affiliations

  • To the CogLab home page.
  • To the Neuroscience home page.