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Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory

Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory
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Author(s): Bernard Carlos Widrow (Stanford University, USA)and Juan Aragon (Stanford University, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 16
Source title: Breakthroughs in Software Science and Computational Intelligence
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Yingxu Wang (University of Calgary, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0264-9.ch006

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Abstract

Taking inspiration from life experience, the authors have devised a new form of computer memory. Certain conjectures about human memory are keys to the central idea. This paper presents a design of a practical and useful “cognitive” memory system in which the new memory does not function like a computer memory where specific data is stored in specific numbered registers; retrieval is done by reading the contents of the specified memory register, or done by matching key words as with a document search. Incoming sensory data would be stored at the next available empty memory location and could be stored redundantly at several empty locations. The stored sensory data would neither have key words nor would it be located in known or specified memory locations. Retrieval would be initiated by a prompt signal from a current set of sensory inputs or patterns. The search would be done by a retrieval system that makes use of auto-associative artificial neural networks. In this paper, the authors present a practical application of this cognitive memory system to human facial recognition.

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