Andrzej BULLER
MemeStorms: A Computational Model of Human Working Memory
Abstract:This report presents a computational model of human working memory in which populations of contradictory memes fight for domination. As a test-bed for the model's psychological plausibility the Mouse Effect was taken. Human subjects, asked to express their feelings about a person or a social situation by the location of cursor (the center of the screen - highly positive, the border of the screen - highly negative). The subjects' feelings sometimes oscillated between a highly positive value and a highly negative value even in absence of new data about the evaluated object. The proposed model, called MemeStorms, demonstrates the same kind of oscillations. A modular structure implementable on ATR's CBM (Cellular [Automata-based] Brain Machine) of MemeStorms-based working memory has been designed.