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Vector Symbolic Architectures answer Jackendoff's challenges for cognitive neuroscience

Gayler, Dr Ross W. (2003) Vector Symbolic Architectures answer Jackendoff's challenges for cognitive neuroscience. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished)

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Jackendoff (2002) posed four challenges that linguistic combinatoriality and rules of language present to theories of brain function. The essence of these problems is the question of how to neurally instantiate the rapid construction and transformation of the compositional structures that are typically taken to be the domain of symbolic processing. He contended that typical connectionist approaches fail to meet these challenges and that the dialogue between linguistic theory and cognitive neuroscience will be relatively unproductive until the importance of these problems is widely recognised and the challenges answered by some technical innovation in connectionist modelling. This paper claims that a little-known family of connectionist models (Vector Symbolic Architectures) are able to meet Jackendoff's challenges.

Item Type:Conference Paper
Additional Information:This is a slightly updated version of the refereed paper presented at the conference.
Keywords:connectionist compositionality binding
Subjects:Computer Science > Language
Neuroscience > Computational Neuroscience
Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
ID Code:3983
Deposited By: Gayler, Dr Ross
Deposited On:11 Dec 2004
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:55

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