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Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory

Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory

Bernard Carlos Widrow, Juan Aragon
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 15
ISSN: 1942-9045|EISSN: 1942-9037|EISBN13: 9781613502648|DOI: 10.4018/jssci.2010100101
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Widrow, Bernard Carlos, and Juan Aragon. "Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory." IJSSCI vol.2, no.4 2010: pp.1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/jssci.2010100101

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Widrow, B. C. & Aragon, J. (2010). Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory. International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), 2(4), 1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/jssci.2010100101

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Widrow, Bernard Carlos, and Juan Aragon. "Cognitive Memory: Human Like Memory," International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI) 2, no.4: 1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/jssci.2010100101

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Abstract

Taking inspiration from life experience, the authors have devised a new form of computer memory. Certain conjectures about human memory are keys to the central idea. This paper presents a design of a practical and useful “cognitive” memory system in which the new memory does not function like a computer memory where specific data is stored in specific numbered registers; retrieval is done by reading the contents of the specified memory register, or done by matching key words as with a document search. Incoming sensory data would be stored at the next available empty memory location and could be stored redundantly at several empty locations. The stored sensory data would neither have key words nor would it be located in known or specified memory locations. Retrieval would be initiated by a prompt signal from a current set of sensory inputs or patterns. The search would be done by a retrieval system that makes use of auto-associative artificial neural networks. In this paper, the authors present a practical application of this cognitive memory system to human facial recognition.

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