D.E. Rumelhart et al. – Parallel Distributed Processing vol.

J.L. McClelland, D.E. Rumelhart and the pdp research group, Parallel Distributed Processing – Explorations in the microstructure of cognition, volume 2: Psychological and Biological Processing, The MIT Press, seventh printing, 1988, 611 pp.
The book is in very good condition. It can be collected in Strombeek but it can also be mailed at the standard rate of the chosen carrier company (bpost, mondial relay,...).

Overview
What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition called connectionism that is challenging the idea of symbolic computation that has traditionally been at the center of debate in theoretical discussions about the mind.
The authors' theory assumes the mind is composed of a great number of elementary units connected in a neural network. Mental processes are interactions between these units which excite and inhibit each other in parallel rather than sequential operations. In this context, knowledge can no longer be thought of as stored in localized structures; instead, it consists of the connections between pairs of units that are distributed throughout the network.
Volume 1 lays the foundations of this exciting theory of parallel distributed processing, while Volume 2 applies it to a number of specific issues in cognitive science and neuroscience, with chapters describing models of aspects of perception, memory, language, and thought.

Table of Contents
VOLUME 2 - PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MODELS
Preface to Volume 2
Addresses of the PDP Research Group
Part IV PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES
14 Schemata and Sequential Thought Processes in PDP Models , D. E. RUMELHART. P. SMOLENSKY, L. MCCLELLAND, and G. E. HINTON
15 Interactive Processes in Speech Perception: The TRACE Model, J. L. MCCLELLAND and J. L. ELMAN
16 The Programmable Blackboard Model of Reading, J L. MCCLELLAND
17 A Distributed Model of Human Learning and Memory, J. L. MCCLELLAND and D. E. RUMELHART
18 On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs, D. E. RUMELHART and J. L. MCCLELLAND
19 Mechanisms of Sentence Processing: Assigning Roles to Constituents, J. L. MCCLELLAND and A. H. KAWAMOTO
Part V BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
20 Certain Aspects of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Cerebral Cortex, F H c. CRICK and C. ASANUMA
21 Open Questions About Computation in Cerebral Cortex, T. SEJNOWSKI
22 Neural and Conceptual Interpretation of PDP Models, P. SMOLENSKY
23 Biologically Plausible Models of Place Recognition and Goal Location, D. ZIPSER
24 State-Dependent Factors Influencing Neural Plasticity: A Partial Account of the Critical Period, P. W. MUNRO
25 Amnesia and Distributed Memory, J. L. MCCLELLAND and D. E. RUMELHART
Part VI CONCLUSION
26 Reflections on Cognition and Parallel Distributed Processing, D. A. NORMAN
Future Directions
References
Index