Holographic Reduced Representation: Distributed Representation for Cognitive Structures Volume 150 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781575864303)

While neuroscientists garner success in identifying brain regions and in analyzing individual neurons, ground is still being broken at the intermediate scale of understanding how neurons combine to encode information. This book proposes a method of representing information in a computer that would be suited for modeling the brain's methods of processing information.

Holographic Reduced Representations (HRRs) are introduced here to model how the brain distributes each piece of information among thousands of neurons. It had been previously thought that the grammatical structure of a language cannot be encoded practically in a distributed representation, but HRRs can overcome the problems of earlier proposals. Thus this work has implications for psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and computer science, and engineering.

Author: Tony A. Plate
ISBN-10: 1575864304
ISBN-13: 9781575864303
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.08w x 0.66d