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Localist representations and theoretical clarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Norman D. Cook
Affiliation:
Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569 Japancook@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp

Abstract

In the Localist Manifesto, Page enumerated several computational advantages that localist representations have over distributed representations, but the most important difference between such networks concerns their theoretical clarity. Distributed representations are normally closed to theoretical interpretation and, for that reason, contribute little to psychology, whereas the meaning of the information processing in networks using localist representations can be transparent.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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