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4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, London, 9–11 April 1997 pp 283–300Cite as

Representations of Serial Order

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Three means of representing serial order in connectionist models are identified: interitem associations (e.g., the recurrent network of Jordan [1]), ordinal representations (e.g., the activation gradient of Grossberg [2]), and positional representations (e.g., the control signal of Houghton [3]). Error data from studies of human short-term memory favour positional representations. Three types of positional representations are possible: those of temporal position (e.g., the OSCAR model of Brown et al. [4]), absolute position (e.g., the Articulatory Loop model of Burgess & Hitch [5]) and relative position (e.g., the Start-End Model of Henson [6]). Recent data [7] favour representations of relative position. A connectionist implementation of relative position is discussed.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University College London, UK

    R. N. A. Henson

  2. Department of Anatomy, University College London, UK

    N. Burgess

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  1. Centre for Speech and Language, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX, London, UK

    John A. Bullinaria BSc, MSc, PhD

  2. Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    David W. Glasspool BSc, Msc  & George Houghton BA, MSc, PhD  & 

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Henson, R.N.A., Burgess, N. (1998). Representations of Serial Order. In: Bullinaria, J.A., Glasspool, D.W., Houghton, G. (eds) 4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, London, 9–11 April 1997. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1546-5_22

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