James McClelland (psychologist)

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James Lloyd McClelland
Born	(1948-12-01) December 1, 1948 (age 75) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University University of Pennsylvania
Awards	Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2002) Rumelhart Prize (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Website	stanford.edu/~jlmcc/

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.^[1] 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 in connectionism in the 1980s.