ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

›› 1997, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (03): 240-249.

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FEATURE BASED ASSOCIATION

Liu Shuzhong(CASE Lab.,Department of Computer Science and Technology,Beijing University,100871)Cheng Hu(Institute of Software,Academia Sinica,Beijing,100080)   

  • Published:1997-09-25 Online:1997-09-25

Abstract: Association is very important in cognitive psychology and cognitive science.Researchers study it from different aspects and have got some significant results.Inthis paper the association is discussed from connectionist association modes,FBCAM(Featured-Based Connectionist Association Model),is described.In FBCAM,and object is described with its features and theaccompanying values of the features.All featuresof an object from the description pattern of the object and the accompanying valuesof the features form the accompanying vector,so that objects can be described precisely.Therefore the similarity between twoconcepts can be analyzed in detail,andthe association and attention can be analyzed and simulated with details.FBCAM isimplemented in the computer(SUN SPARC Workstation, C programming language).

Key words: similarity, association, connectionism, cognition