From Brain Signals to Language

About these Paul Smolensky lecture notes

These notes follow Paul Smolensky’s account of how neural activity can support symbolic and linguistic structure. They move from distributed representations and role–filler binding to compositional computation, attention, LLMs, and transformer production systems.

• Neural activity, symbolic representations, and language
• Distributed vectors, roles, fillers, and tensor-product representations
• Compositional structure and connectionist computation
• LLMs, attention, and transformer production systems