Center for Research in Computational Neuro-Cognition

计算神经认知研究中心

• 批准号: 8714206
• 负责人: Charles Taylor
• 金额: $ 120.51万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-15 至 1990-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8714206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Research; Computational; Neuro; Cognition

This Biological Facilities Center proposal requests funds to purchase a Thinking Machines CMlB Connection Machine with l6,384 processing elements and 64 Kbits of memory per element for the Center for Research in Computational Neuro-Cognition. This machine is one of the most powerful computers in the world owing to the extraordinary degree of parallelism it provides--up to 65,536 concurrent bit operations in the maximal configuration. It is useful primarily for executing programs that manipulate tens of thousands to millions of small, simple, interacting units, exactly the kinds of elements that are found in modeling vision systems, associative memories, and other neuro-cognitive structures as well as genetic and evolutionary data. The participants in the Center are committed to a fundamentally computational view of cognition, focusing on how humans and other animals represent and manipulate information. The Center is highly multidisciplinary, including faculty from neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, psychology, evolutionary biology, mathematics, and other departments. Specific research projects for which the connection machine will be used include: to advance a biological computation model of langugage, neuromagnetic imaging, to develop a model of recent memory, to explore analogical problem solving, to produce an automatic image identification system using biological principles based on Grossberg's theories of brain function, to develop parallel structural models of vision, and to simulate ecological and evolutionary processes.

这项生物设施中心的提案要求为计算神经认知研究中心购买一台思维机器CMlB连接机，该机器具有l6,384个处理元件和每个元件64 kb的内存。这台机器是世界上最强大的计算机之一，因为它提供了非凡的并行度——在最大配置下，最多可并发65,536位操作。它主要用于执行操作数万到数百万个小的、简单的、相互作用的单元的程序，这些单元正是在视觉系统建模、联想记忆和其他神经认知结构以及遗传和进化数据中发现的元素。该中心的参与者致力于认知的基本计算视图，关注人类和其他动物如何表示和操纵信息。该中心具有高度的多学科性，包括来自神经科学、计算机科学、语言学、心理学、进化生物学、数学和其他院系的教师。使用该连接机的具体研究项目包括：推进语言、神经磁成像的生物计算模型，发展近期记忆的模型，探索类比解决问题的方法，基于Grossberg的脑功能理论，利用生物学原理建立自动图像识别系统，发展视觉的平行结构模型，并模拟生态和进化过程。