Final Technical Report for Contract N00014-91-J-1764 (Columbia College).

Abstract

This study describes hippocampal participation in classical conditioning in terms of a multilayer network that portrays stimulus configuration. The network (a) describes behavior in real time, (b) incorporates a layer of "hidden" units positioned between input and output units, (c) includes inputs that are connected to the output directly as well as indirectly through the hidden-unit layer, and (d) employs a biologically plausible backpropagation procedure to train the hidden-unit layer. The model correctly describes the effect of hippocampal and cortical lesions in the following paradigms: (1) acquisition of delay and trace conditioning, (2) extinction, (3) acquisition-extinction series of delay conditioning, (4) blocking, (5) overshadowing, (6) discrimination acquisition, (7) discrimination reversal, (8) feature-positive discrimination, (9) conditioned inhibition, (10) negative patterning, (11) positive patterning, and (12) generalization. Some of these results might be extended to the description of anterograde amnesia in human patients.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA300494

Entities

People

  • Geog Goldbogen
  • Nestor A. Schmajuk
  • Zafra Lerman

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Amnesia
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Competition
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Discrimination
  • Extinction
  • Hippocampus
  • Inhibition
  • Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Students
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Neuroscience