February 2009 : Developing Intelligence

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February 27, 2009

Working Memory without Recurrent Connectivity: Feedforward in Disguise?

[ , Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Modeling ]

A principal insight from computational neuroscience for studies of higher-level cognition is rooted in the recurrent network architecture. Recurrent networks, very simply, are those composed of neurons that connect to themselves, enabling them to learn to maintain information over time...

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February 24, 2009

Book Review: Kluge - The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

[ Book Reviews, Cognitive Neuroscience ]

People are stupid - and Kluge is about how, exactly, we are stupid.

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February 3, 2009

When Pigs Fly But Hell Hasn't Frozen Over: Semantic Anomalies, Context, and the Inferior Frontal Gyri

[ , Cognitive Neuroscience ]

When reading the title of this post, your knowledge of the world was sufficient to let you interpret the phrase "when pigs fly," but also alerted you to the fact that it is inconsistent with much of that world knowledge:...

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