Simulating symbolic distance effects in the transitive inference problem

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 1603-1610

  Wu, Xiangbao ^a   B Levy, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Recurrent networks; Sequence learning; Symbolic distance effects; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SEQUENCE LEARNING;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBOLISM; TRAINING;

EID: 0035383938     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00512-4     Document Type: Article

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