Jay McClelland

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I am a cognitive scientist who began to use artificial neural networks to model human cognition in the late 1970's.  With David Rumelhart, I co-led the PDP Research Group at UCSD in the early 1980's, leading to the publication of  the two-volume work, Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition with Rumelhart and the PDP Research Group in 1986.  I have served on the faculty in the Psychology Departments at UCSD, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford University, and was the co-founder of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Joint with the University of Pittsburgh) while at Carnegie Mellon and the founder of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology at Stanford.   Currently I collaborate with others using a combination of experiments on adult human participants and artificial neural network models in an effort to understand how culture, experience, and our nature as biological organisms co-conspire to allow human minds to acquire advanced cognitive abilities such as the ability to formulate a mathematical proof or even to develop a refine a formal mathematical system.