Cognitive Psychologist; Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University; Co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation, and Technology
James McClelland is a cognitive psychologist best known for his work on parallel distributed processing (PDP) and applying neural networks to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition, language processing, and memory. Currently, his work focuses on the development of mathematical cognition. He teaches on the PDP approach to cognition and its neural underpinnings and is a consulting research scientist at DeepMind. Laureate of the 2005 Mind & Brain Prize, 2010 Rumelhart Prize, and 2014 de Carvalho-Heineken Prize, he is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation, and Technology.