
This book presents a fascinating and self-contained account of "recruitment learning", a model and theory of fast learning in the neocortex. In contrast to the more common attractor network paradigm for long- and short-term memory, recruitment learning focuses on one-shot learning...

PART I: Recruitment in Discrete Time Neural Networks .- Recruitment Learning - An Introduction.- One-shot learning - Specialization and Generalization.- Connectivity and Candidate Structures.- Representation and Recruitment.- Cognitive Applications .- PART II: Recruitment in...