Postscript: Parallel Distributed Processing in Localist Models Without Thresholds.

A commentary on an article by Jeffrey S. Bowers that appeared in this issue on pp. 300–306. In his article, Bowers contended that grandmother cells in neuroscience are the equivalent of localist representations in psychology, and in that, grandmother cells are biologically plausible. Bowers also a...

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Publicado en:Psychological Review Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 289 - 291
Autores principales: Plaut, David C., McClelland, James L.
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Publicado: American Psychological Association January 2010
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