James McClelland (psychologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James McClelland (psychologist)

American psychologist

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1948

Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher, researcher, academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

James Lloyd "Jay" McClelland, FBA (born December 1, 1948) is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the Psychology Department.
He is best known for his work on statistical learning and Parallel Distributed Processing, applying connectionist models (or neural networks) to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition and visual word recognition.
McClelland is to a large extent responsible for the large increase in scientific interest for connectionism in the 1980s.