Episodic memory: A connectionist interpretation

Abstract

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. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.