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The strengths and weaknesses of episodic memory and its analysis when represented in symbolic terms are indicated. Some aspects may be more easily implemented in a connectionist form. Those which pose a challenge to a PDP system are presented in the context of recent neurobiological work. A theoretical, connectionist account of episodic memory is outlined. This assigns a critical role to hebbosomes in individual neurons as a means of establishing episodic memory records and relies on interaction between episodic memories in temporal and entorhinal cortices and the hippocampus as a determinant of modification of semantic memory.
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Wallace, J.G., Bluff, K. (2002). Episodic Memory: A Connectionist Interpretation. In: Dorronsoro, J.R. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2002. ICANN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46084-5_44
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