Formal models of memory based on temporally-varying representations
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Howard, Marc W.
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M. Howard. "Formal models of memory based on temporally-varying representations." https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01796
Abstract
The idea that memory behavior relies on a gradually-changing internal state
has a long history in mathematical psychology. This chapter traces this line
of thought from statistical learning theory in the 1950s, through distributed
memory models in the latter part of the 20th century and early part of the
21st century through to modern models based on a scale-invariant temporal
history. We discuss the neural phenomena consistent with this form of representation
and sketch the kinds of cognitive models that can be constructed
using it and connections with formal models of various memory tasks.