PATTERNS ASSOCIATION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2503 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
The formation of associations between patterns is a very important ability of neural circuits in the brain.
It corresponds to a phenomenon thus described by P. DENNING: “… the memory is sparse because the physical locations are a vanishingly small subset of the memory space; it is distributed because a pattern is stored in many locations and retrieved by statistical reconstruction from many locations. Distribution enables the memory to retrieve a stored pattern when the input cue only partially matches any stored pattern, an ability that arises from the large overlap between the spheres of selected locations of two similar cues” (1989, p.334).
Patterns association is now researched on connection machines, as another example of feedback between parallel computer research and brain neurology.