Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

A constructive theory of memory organisation has been developed, based upon the principle of non-temporal prediction. The theory predicts much of the experimental findings on recall and forgetting and provides a computational foundation for some of the intuitive notions of the society of mind theory. This paper describes an experimental architecture that is being used to study this form of learning. The architecture is a highly distributed system that achieves "structural" learning through the application of a particularly powerful form of natural constraint.