Multi-Modular Associative Memory

Abstract

Motivated by the findings of modular structure in the association cortex, we study a multi-modular model of associative memory that can successfully store memory patterns with different levels of ac(cid:173) tivity. We show that the segregation of synaptic conductances into intra-modular linear and inter-modular nonlinear ones considerably enhances the network's memory retrieval performance. Compared with the conventional, single-module associative memory network, the multi-modular network has two main advantages: It is less sus(cid:173) ceptible to damage to columnar input, and its response is consistent with the cognitive data pertaining to category specific impairment.

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Text

Levy et al. "Multi-Modular Associative Memory." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.

Markdown

[Levy et al. "Multi-Modular Associative Memory." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1997/levy1997neurips-multimodular/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{levy1997neurips-multimodular,
  title     = {{Multi-Modular Associative Memory}},
  author    = {Levy, Nir and Horn, David and Ruppin, Eytan},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1997},
  pages     = {52-58},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1997/levy1997neurips-multimodular/}
}