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A connectionist-symbolic cognitive model

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Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 1993)

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This paper describes a formal model for the cognitive activity, which is an instantiation of a more general proposal for a research line in artificial intelligence. The main contribution of the paper is the specification of a wave propagation model that performs inference in predicate logic without quantifiers through an interference mechanism. The model is highly parallel, and is flexible enough to be extended, in a natural way, to simulate first-order logic, fuzzy logic, four-valued logic, and uncertain reasoning. The model is part of an architecture integrating neural networks and symbolic reasoning to simulate cognitive activities.

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  1. Laboratório Associado de Computação e Matemática Aplicada, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Caixa Postal 515, CEP 12.201-097, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

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Bittencourt, G. (1993). A connectionist-symbolic cognitive model. In: Komorowski, J., Raś, Z.W. (eds) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56804-2_50

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