Graded attractors: Configuring context-dependent workspaces for ideation

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-09-01, Issue , 2009, Pages 91-96

  Minai, Ali A ^a   Iyer, Laxmi R ^a   Padur, Divyachapan ^a   Doboli, Simona ^b   Brown, Vincent R ^b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RESPONSE; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION; DYNAMIC SELECTORS; DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE; MEMORY SYSTEMS; MOTOR CONTROL; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RESPONSE PROCESS; SPECIFIC SUBSET;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MODULATION;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 77954239213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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