How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition - Couverture rigide

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Eliasmith, Chris

 
9780199794546: How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition
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ISBN 10 : 0199794545 ISBN 13 : 9780199794546
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2013

Synopsis

In this book, Chris Eliasmith presents a new approach to understanding the neural implementation of cognition in a way that is centrally driven by biological considerations. He calls the general architecture that results from the application of this approach the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA), based on the Semantic Pointer Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, higher-level cognitive functions in biological systems are made possible by semantic pointers. These pointers are neural representations that carry partial semantic content and can be built up into the complex representational structures necessary to support cognition. The SPA architecture demonstrates how neural systems generate, compose, and control the flow of semantics pointers. Eliasmith describes in detail the theory and empirical evidence supporting the SPA, and presents several examples of its application to cognitive modeling, covering the generation of semantic pointers from visual data, the application of semantic pointers for motor control, and most important, the use of semantic pointers for representation of language-like structures, cognitive control, syntactic generalization, learning of new cognitive strategies, and language-based reasoning. He agues that the SPA provides an alternative to the dominant paradigms in cognitive science, including symbolicism, connectionism, and dynamicism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Chris Eliasmith is Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199794545
ISBN 13 
9780199794546
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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ISBN 10 :  0190262125 ISBN 13 :  9780190262129
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2015
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