This tutorial was designed for a 5 day class on connectionist modeling in the Summer School on Cognitive Development at University of Amsterdam Cognitive Science Center. There are some bugs in the software, so please get in touch if you notice something is not working.

More information about the language generator is available here.

There is a separate web page for each day of the class.

Day 1: Learning to use the LENS simulator and training a simple recurrent network

Day 2: Comparing the ProdSRN and the Dual-path model

Day 3: Dual-path model

Day 4: Changing the input message-sentence pairs