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Local versus distributed: A poor taxonomy of neural coding strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Michael W. Spratling
Michael W. Spratling*
Affiliation:
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7JL, United Kingdom
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m.spratling@bbk.ac.uk
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Page is to be congratulated for challenging some misconceptions about neural representation. However, his target article, and the commentaries to it, highlight that the terms “local” and “distributed” are open to misinterpretation. These terms provide a poor description of neural coding strategies and a better taxonomy might resolve some of the issues.

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Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004, pp. 700 - 702
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

Footnotes

Commentary on Mike Page (2000). Connectionist modelling in psychology: A localist manifesto. BBS 23(4):443–512.

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