Symbolic Machine Learning
I'm working in the lab that built Spaun [1] that might be of interest to you. We use the Vector Symbolic Architectures you talk about in combination with Deep Learning and other stuff to build brain models.As far I know, my lab is one of the few places mixing symbolic learning with Deep Learning. Do you or anyone else know other modern attempts (Reinforcement Learning?) with this approach?[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1202