Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2000 - Volume 23, Issue 04  


Short Communication

Combining distributed and localist computations in real-time neural networks

Gail A. Carpenter a1
a1 Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 gail@cns.bu.edu http://cns.bu.edu/~gail/

Abstract

In order to benefit from the advantages of localist coding, neural models that feature winner-take-all representations at the top level of a network hierarchy must still solve the computational problems inherent in distributed representations at the lower levels.