ABSTRACT
Everyone agrees that real cognition requires much more than static pattern recognition. In particular, it requires the ability to learn sequences of patterns (or actions) But learning sequences really means being able to learn multiple sequences, one after the other, without the most recently learned ones erasing the previously learned ones. But if catastrophic interference is a problem for the sequential learning of individual patterns, the problem is amplified many times over when multiple sequences of patterns have to be learned consecutively, because each new sequence consists of many linked patterns. In this paper we will present a connectionist architecture that would seem to solve the problem of multiple sequence learning using pseudopatterns.
