A solution to the binding problem for compositional connectionism
John E. Hummel, Keith J. Holyoak, Collin B. Green, Leonidas A. A. Doumas, Derek Devnich, Donald J. Kalar · 2004
Achieving compositional connectionism means finding a way to represent role-filler bindings in a connectionist sys-tem without sacrificing role-filler independence. Role-filler binding schemes based on varieties of conjunctive coding (the most common approach in the connectionist literature) fail to preserve role-filler independence. At the same time, dynamic binding of roles to fillers (e.g., by synchrony of fir-ing) represents bindings without sacrificing independence, but is inadequate for storing bindings in long-term memory. An appropriate combination of dynamic binding (for repre-sentation in working memory) and conjunctive coding (for long-term storage and token formation) provides a platform for compositional connectionism, and has proven successful in simulating numerous aspects of human perception and cognition.