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Beyond pattern completion with short-term plasticity

Authors
Kevin Shabahang
University of Melbourne ~ Psychology
Dr. Hyungwook Yim
Hanyang University ~ Department of Cognitive Sciences
Prof. Simon Dennis
University of Melbourne ~ University of Melbourne
Abstract

In a Linear Associative Net (LAN), all input settles to a single pattern, therefore Anderson, Silverstein, Ritz, and Jones (1977) introduced saturation to force the system to reach other steady-states in the Brain-State-in-a-Box (BSB). Unfortunately, the BSB is limited in its ability to generalize because its responses are restricted to previously stored patterns. We present simulations showing how a Dynamic-Eigen-Net (DEN), a LAN with Short-Term Plasticity (STP), overcomes the single-response limitation. Critically, a DEN also accommodates novel patterns by aligning them with encoded structure. We train a two-slot DEN on a text corpus, and provide an account of lexical decision and judgement-of-grammaticality (JOG) tasks showing how grammatical bi-grams yield stronger responses relative to ungrammatical bi-grams. Finally, we present a simulation showing how a DEN is sensitive to syntactic violations introduced in novel bi-grams. We propose DENs as associative nets with great.

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Keywords

Content Addressable Memory
Auto-associative
Short-Term Plasticity
Generalization

Topics

Cognitive Modeling
Learning
Memory Models
Dynamical Systems
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Shabahang, K., Yim, H., & Dennis, S. (2020, July). Beyond pattern completion with short-term plasticity. Paper presented at Virtual MathPsych/ICCM 2020. Via mathpsych.org/presentation/93.