Submitted version of letter that appeared in: Science 285: 1673-1674.
A report (in postscript) describing the proposed connectionist
model and simulation results may be found here
A Spatiotemporal Connectionist Model of Algebraic Rule-Learning,
Lokendra Shastri and Shawn Chang, TR-99-011, ICSI, Berkeley, CA,
July, 1999.
The model for extracting algebraic rules is based on prior work on
learning relational rules within structured spatiotemporal network that
use temporal synchrony to encode dynamic bindings. A technical report
(in postscript) describing this model may be found here.
Exploiting temporal binding to learn relational rules within a
connectionist network, Lokendra Shastri, TR-97-003, ICSI, Berkeley, CA,
May, 1997.
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