{"pk":31258,"title":"Fractal (Reconstructive Analogue) Memory","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper' proposes a new approach to mental imagery that has the potential for resolving an old debate. W e show that the methods by which fractals emerge from dynamical systems provide a natural computational framework for the relationship between the \"deep\" representations of long-term visual memory and the \"surface\" representations of the visual array, a distinction which was proposed by (Kosslyn, 1980). The concept of an iterated function system (IFS) as a highly compressed representation for a complex topological set of points in a metric space (Bamsley, 1988) is embedded in a connectionist model for mental imagery tasks. T w o advantages of this approach over previous models are the capability for topological transformations of the images, and the continuity of the deep representations with respect to the surface representations.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xd6x8gr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Stucki","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jordan","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Pollack","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31258/galley/22327/download/"}]}