Finding Structure in Time

@article{Elman1990FindingSI,
  title={Finding Structure in Time},
  author={Jeffrey L. Elman},
  journal={Cogn. Sci.},
  year={1990},
  volume={14},
  pages={179-211}
}
  • J. Elman
  • Published 1 March 1990
  • Psychology
  • Cogn. Sci.
Time underlies many interesting human behaviors. [] Key Method In this approach, hidden unit patterns are fed back to themselves; the internal representations which develop thus reflect task demands in the context of prior internal states. A set of simulations is reported which range from relatively simple problems (temporal version of XOR) to discovering syntactic/semantic features for words. The networks are able to learn interesting internal representations which incorporate task demands with memory…
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