title: Neural associative memories and sparse coding.
abstract: The theoretical, practical and technical development of neural associative memories during the last 40 years is described. The importance of sparse coding of associative memory patterns is pointed out. The use of associative memory networks for large scale brain modeling is also mentioned.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany. palm@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de
authors.forename: Günther
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Palm
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer