PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Connectionism
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Memory connections provide much more than retrieval paths; instead the connections are our memories. First we need means of representing individual ideas which will be the nodes within the network, just like knots in a fishermans net. These nodes are then tied to each other through connections called associations or associative links. Learning is similar to building a highway between two cities. What it means to search through memory is to begin at one node and to travel through the connections until the target info is reached: some cities" are linked by super highways and others by country roads. Other cities are not linked to each other at all but you can get from one to the next by traveling through some intermediate cities (this is why some memories are recalled and others are not) A node becomes activated when it receives a strong enough input signal like a lightbulb from electricity.
