Human memory has been an inspiration throughout AI. Cognitive modelling needs to take into account the capabilities of human memory, notably the limited capacity of short-term memory. Knowledge representation techniques such as semantic networks emulate the way knowledge is cnnected assocatively in the brain. Perhaps most famously, neural networks are inspired in soem case mimic aspects of the way human mewmories are formed by adapting cell-to-cell connectivity and activity of neurones in the human brain.
Used on Chap. 2: page 28; Chap. 6: page 117; Chap. 22: pages 535, 536
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psychclassics.yorku.ca: article: The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information. George A. Miller (1956)- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: article: George Miller’s Magical Number of Immediate Memory in Retrospect: Observations on the Faltering Progression of Science. Nelson Cowan (2015)