?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Vector+Symbolic+Architectures+answer+Jackendoff's+challenges+for+cognitive+neuroscience&rft.creator=Gayler%2C+Dr+Ross+W.&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=Jackendoff+(2002)+posed+four+challenges+that+linguistic+combinatoriality+and+rules+of+language+present+to+theories+of+brain+function.+The+essence+of+these+problems+is+the+question+of+how+to+neurally+instantiate+the+rapid+construction+and+transformation+of+the+compositional+structures+that+are+typically+taken+to+be+the+domain+of+symbolic+processing.++He+contended+that+typical+connectionist+approaches+fail+to+meet+these+challenges+and+that+the+dialogue+between+linguistic+theory+and+cognitive+neuroscience+will+be+relatively+unproductive+until+the+importance+of+these+problems+is+widely+recognised+and+the+challenges+answered+by+some+technical+innovation+in+connectionist+modelling.++This+paper+claims+that+a+little-known+family+of+connectionist+models+(Vector+Symbolic+Architectures)+are+able+to+meet+Jackendoff's+challenges.&rft.date=2003&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3983%2F1%2FJackendoff_challenges_V3.pdf&rft.identifier=++Gayler%2C+Dr+Ross+W.++(2003)+Vector+Symbolic+Architectures+answer+Jackendoff's+challenges+for+cognitive+neuroscience.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3983%2F