COGS 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Connectionism, Episodic Memory, Confabulation
29 Mar 2016
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The distinctions suggested by the types of long-term memory attempt to establish categories of knowledge that can be learned over time. However, we still need models of memory in order to make testable predictions. o o o. Each model of mental representations and processing of those representations. Schema: a general knowledge structure used for understanding complex situations. o o. A schema is general for a type of situation, and helps give organizational structure to a speciic event. Schemas are more than a bunch of facts- they are structured to include the relationships between facts. Most importantly, schemas provide relevant top-down knowledge o. Based on an accumulation of events, you build up schemas for diferent situations. This builds expectations for speciic elements during some episode. o. Each schema has slots that are placeholders for expected (typical) items. Each slot can be illed with (appropriate) values from the current situation.
