Compositionality and Biologically Plausible Models

The breadth of this handbook demonstrates the diversity of approaches to compositionality that characterize current research. Understanding how structured representations are formed and manipulated has been a long-standing challenge for those investigating the complexities of cognition. Fodor and Pylyshyn (1988) and Jackendoff (2002) have provided detailed discussions of the problems faced by any theory purporting to describe how such systems can occur in the physical brain. In particular, neural cognitive theories must not only identify how to neurally instantiate the rapid construction and transformation of compositional structures, but also provide explanatory advantages over classical symbolic approaches.

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