Abstract
Unsupervised topological ordering, similar to Kohonen's (1982, Biological Cybernetics, 43: 59-69) self-organizing feature map, was achieved in a connectionist module for competitive learning (a CALM Map) by internally regulating the learning rate and the size of the active neighbourhood on the basis of input novelty. In this module, winner-take-all competition and the 'activity bubble' are due tograded lateral inhibition between units. It tends to separate representations as far apart as possible, which leads to interpolation abilities and an absence of catastrophic interference when the interfering set of patterns forms an interpolated set of the initial data set. More than the Kohonen maps, these maps provide an opportunity for building psychologically and neurophysiologically motivated multimodular connectionist models. As an example, the dual pathway connectionist model for fear conditioning by Armony et al. (1997, Trends in Cognitive Science, 1: 28-34) was rebuilt and extended with CALM Maps. If the detection of novelty enhances memory encoding in a canonical circuit, such as the CALM Map, this could explain the finding of large distributed networks for novelty detection (e.g. Knight and Scabini, 1998, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 15: 3-13) in the brain.
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