It reviews current connectionist modelling efforts with regards to modelling cognitive development.
Special attention is paid to models of development in autistic children.
Brain and Behaviour in Human DevelopmentA A source book. Kluwer Academic Publishers. This chapter discusses self-organization as a motor for cognitive development. Self-organization occurs in systems with many degrees of freedom and is ubiquitous in the brain. The principal means of investigating the role of self-organization in cognitive development is through connectionist computational modeling.