A Solution to the Binding Problem for Compositional Connectionism

John E. Hummel; Keith J. Holyoak; C. Green; Alex Doumas; D Devnich; A Kittur; D.J Kalar

A Solution to the Binding Problem for Compositional Connectionism

John E. Hummel, Keith J. Holyoak, C. Green, Alex Doumas, D Devnich, A Kittur, D.J Kalar

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Achieving compositional connectionism means finding a way to represent role-filler bindings in a connectionist system without sacrificing role-filler independence. Role-filler binding schemes based on varieties of conjunctive coding (the most common approach in the connectionist literature) fail to preserve role-filler independence. At the same time, dynamic binding of roles to fillers (e.g., by synchrony of firing) represents bindings without sacrificing independence, but is inadequate for storing bindings in long-term memory. An appropriate combination of dynamic binding (for representation in working memory) and conjunctive coding (for long-term storage and token formation) provides a platform for compositional connectionism, and has proven successful in simulating numerous aspects of human perception and
cognition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium
Editors	S.D Levy, R Gayler
Publisher	AAAI Press
Pages	31-34
ISBN (Print)	978-1-57735-214-3
Publication status	Published - Oct 2004

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Hummel, J. E., Holyoak, K. J., Green, C., Doumas, A., Devnich, D., Kittur, A., & Kalar, D. J. (2004). A Solution to the Binding Problem for Compositional Connectionism. In S. D. Levy, & R. Gayler (Eds.), Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium (pp. 31-34). AAAI Press. http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/2004/FS-04-03/FS04-03-007.pdf

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