Locating Object Knowledge in the Brain: Comment on Bowers's (2009) Attempt to Revive the Grandmother Cell Hypothesis

Autor/inn/en	Plaut, David C.; McClelland, James L.
Titel	Locating Object Knowledge in the Brain: Comment on Bowers's (2009) Attempt to Revive the Grandmother Cell Hypothesis
Quelle	In: Psychological Review, 117 (2010) 1, S.284-288 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-295X
DOI	10.1037/a0017101
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Stimuli; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Cognitive Processes; Object Permanence; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Objektpermanenz; Analogiemodell
Abstract	According to Bowers, the finding that there are neurons with highly selective responses to familiar stimuli supports theories positing localist representations over approaches positing the type of distributed representations typically found in parallel distributed processing (PDP) models. However, his conclusions derive from an overly narrow view of the range of possible distributed representations and of the role that PDP models can play in exploring their properties. Although it is true that current distributed theories face challenges in accounting for both neural and behavioral data, the proposed localist account--to the extent that it is articulated at all--runs into more fundamental difficulties. Central to these difficulties is the problem of specifying the set of entities a localist unit represents. (Contains 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10