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

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 284-288

  Plaut, David C ^a,b   McClelland, James L ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

connectionist modeling; distributed representations; grandmother cells; localist representations; parallel distributed processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN; COGNITION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 74049107346     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017101     Document Type: Article

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