PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Artificial Neural Network, Distributed Computing, Nately

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Long-term memory is huge, it has to be to contain all of the memory we remember. How does memory retrieval work and how is memory set up to support this retrieval> Memory connections provide much more than retrieval paths, the connections are memories. All of knowledge is represented via a sprawling network of connections, a vast set of associations. E. g. nodes are cities and associates are highways. Not all associations are of equal strength e. g. there is a strong association between the. My birthday node and the node representing a specific date. Some active intellectual engagement is need to create or strengthen the connections the nature of this engagement is crucial, creating multiple connections, thinking about the material in distinctive ways. A node becomes activated when it has received a strong enough input signal. What travels through associative links is akin to energy or fuel. Associative links can be thought of as activation carriers .