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Colloquium


Colloquium



3:30 PM, Friday, April 5, 2002


Room 155, Chem-Phys Building







Dr. Yehuda Salu


Physics Department
Howard University, Washington DC





A Connectionist Perspective of Brain and Mind





Connectionism is a scientific discipline that deals with the relationships between properties of individual nerve cells (neurons), the connections between them, and the overall performances of neural networks that they make-up. Connectionism has two main branches. One concentrates on modeling real biological neural networks, and the other concentrates on artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are inspired by biological networks. This talk presents a model that deals with the relationships between a wide array of observed human behaviors and their underlying biological neural mechanisms. The model incorporates in a controlled way biological findings and hypotheses, so that additional experiments could concentrate on specific biological questions, and novel AI application could be developed. A review of the relevant biology will be given before presenting the model and examples of its operation.



*** Refreshments served at 3:15 PM ***


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