
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2008
Pages: 310-335
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783540790365
Full citation:
, "Can't get you out of my head", in: Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans, Berlin, Springer, 2008


Can't get you out of my head
a connectionist model of cyclic rehearsal
pp. 310-335
in: Ipke Wachsmuth, Günther Knoblich (eds), Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans, Berlin, Springer, 2008Abstract
Humans are able to perform a large variety of periodic activities in different modes, for instance cyclic rehearsal of phone numbers, humming a melody sniplet over and over again. These performances are, to a certain degree, robust against perturbations, and it often suffices to present a new pattern a few times only until it can be "picked up". From an abstract mathematical perspective, this implies that the brain, as a dynamical system, (1) hosts a very large number of cyclic attractors, such that (2) if the system is driven by external input with a cyclic motif, it can entrain to a closely corresponding attractor in a very short time. This chapter proposes a simple recurrent neural network architecture which displays these dynamical phenomena. The model builds on echo state networks (ESNs), which have recently become popular in machine learning and computational neuroscience.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2008
Pages: 310-335
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9783540790365
Full citation:
, "Can't get you out of my head", in: Modeling communication with robots and virtual humans, Berlin, Springer, 2008