An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Colloquially, episodic memory is described as “the memory of personally experienced
events”. Even though episodic memory has been studied in psychology and neuroscience …

The paper develops an account of minimal traces devoid of representational content and
exploits an analogy to a predictive processing framework of perception. As perception can …

In the most general way of speaking, people use the noun" memory" to refer to instances
where information of the past is made available for present purposes. This chapter begins …

Synesthesia is traditionally regarded as a phenomenon in which an additional non-standard
phenomenal experience occurs consistently in response to ordinary stimulation applied to …

The past decade has produced a revolution in Artificial Intelligence (AI), after a halfcentury of
AI repeatedly failing to meet expectations. What explains the dramatic change from 20th …

If only it were possible to develop automated and trainable neural systems that could justify
their behavior in a way that could be interpreted by humans like a symbolic system. The field …

This paper attempts to describe and address a specific puzzle related to compositionality in
artificial networks such as Deep Neural Networks and machine learning in general. The …

Contemporary semantic theories can be classified along two dimensions:(i) the way and
time-course in which contextual factors influence sentence truth-conditions; and (ii) whether …

We propose that rapid eye movement (REM) and slow-wave sleep contribute differently to
the formation of episodic memories. REM sleep is important for building up invariant object …