Cognitive Experiments with SDMSCue (Sparse Distributed Memory for Small Cues)

In this work, I present Sparse Distributed Memory for Small Cues (SDMSCue), a new variant of Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM) that is capable of handling small cues. I then show and conduct some cognitive experiments on SDMSCue to test its cognitive soundness compared to SDM. Small cues refer to input cues that are presented to memory for reading associations; but have many missing parts or fields from them. The original SDM failed to handle such a problem. SDMSCue handles and overcomes this pitfall. The main idea in SDMSCue; is the repeated projection of the semantic space on smaller subspaces; that are selected based on the input cue length and pattern. This process allows for Read/Write operations using an input cue that is missing a large portion. SDMSCue is augmented with the use of genetic algorithms for memory allocation and initialization. I claim that SDM functionality is subset of SDMSCue functionality