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Jay McClelland is the Lucie Stern Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Linguistics and Computer Science. He directs the Center for the Mind, Brain, and Computation Technology, where his research addresses perception, decision making, learning, memory, language, reading, semantic cognition, and cognitive development. His work explores how cognition emerges from distributed processing across neural populations and the adaptation of learning connections among neurons. McClelland's recent research focuses on mathematical cognition and reasoning in humans and contemporary AI systems based on neural networks. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and has been recognized with the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 1996 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001. McClelland continues to teach and guide doctoral students in various courses related to psychology and symbolic systems.
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