Time underlies many interesting human behaviors. Thus, the question of how to represent
time in connectionist models is very important. One approach is to represent time implicitly
by its effects on processing rather than explicitly (as in a spatial representation). The current
report develops a proposal along these lines first described by Jordan (1986) which involves
the use of recurrent links in order to provide networks with a dynamic memory. In this
approach, hidden unit patterns are fed back to themselves: the internal representations …

Time underlies many interesting human behaviors. Thus, the question of how to represent
time in connectionist models is very important. One approach is to represent time implicitly
by its effects on processing rather than explicitly (as in a spatial representation). The current
report develops a proposal along these lines first described by Jordan (1986) which involves
the use of recurrent links in order to provide networks with a dynamic memory. In this
approach, hidden unit patterns are fed back to themselves; the internal representations …