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James McClelland, a Common card
James Lloyd "Jay" McClelland, FBA is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the Psychology Department.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 78
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,200
Power 78 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
James McClelland quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the James McClelland card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
McClelland is to a large extent responsible for the large increase in scientific interest in ______ in the 1980s.
Answer
connectionism. McClelland is to a large extent responsible for the large increase in scientific interest in connectionism in the 1980s. From the James McClelland article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ejegayehu Dibaba. Ejegayehu Dibaba 58 · Frank Adams 54 · James McClelland 51 · Charles McBurney 48 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for his work on statistical learning and Parallel Distributed Processing, applying connectionist models 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 in connectionism in the 1980s.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James McClelland article was read about 6,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, James McClelland (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jussi Puikkonen/KNAW KNAW Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.



