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The Role of Attention in the Context of Associative Memory

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We model the mechanism of the retrieval of associations from the associative memory during visual scene analysis. During the analysis of the visual scene, the retrieval phase of the associative memory is divided into two stages: the attention stage and the binding stage. In the attention stage, an attention window selects patterns representing objects for further access. In the binding stage, the selected patterns form an address vector. The behavior of the model is demonstrated by theoretical analysis and empirical experiment.

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This work was supported by Fundao para a Cencia e Tecnologia (FCT) (INESC-ID multiannual funding) through the PIDDAC Program funds.

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Wichert, A. The Role of Attention in the Context of Associative Memory. Cogn Comput 3, 311–320 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-010-9064-1

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