Measuring sparseness in the brain: Comment on Bowers (2009).
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Measuring sparseness in the brain: comment on Bowers (2009).
Bowers challenged the common view in favor of distributed representations in psychological modeling and the main arguments given against localist and grandmother cell coding schemes. He revisited the results of several single-cell studies, arguing that they do not support distributed representations. We praise the contribution of Bowers (2009) for joining evidence from psychological modeling an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1939-1471,0033-295X
DOI: 10.1037/a0016917