title: Six principles for biologically based computational models of cortical cognition.
abstract: This review describes and motivates six principles for computational cognitive neuroscience models: biological realism, distributed representations, inhibitory competition, bidirectional activation propagation, error-driven task learning, and Hebbian model learning. Although these principles are supported by a number of cognitive, computational and biological motivations, the prototypical neural-network model (a feedforward back-propagation network) incorporates only two of them, and no widely used model incorporates all of them. It is argued here that these principles should be integrated into a coherent overall framework, and some potential synergies and conflicts in doing so are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 345, Boulder, CO 80304, USA.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: O'Reilly