Similarity, connectionism, and the problem of representation in vision.

Abstract:

:A representational scheme under which the ranking between represented similarities is isomorphic to the ranking between the corresponding shape similarities can support perfectly correct shape classification because it preserves the clustering of shapes according to the natural kinds prevailing in the external world. This article discusses the computational requirements of representation that preserves similarity ranks and points out the relative straightforwardness of its connectionist implementation.

journal_name

Neural Comput

journal_title

Neural computation

authors

Edelman S,Duvdevani-Bar S

doi

10.1162/neco.1997.9.4.701

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-05-15 00:00:00

pages

701-20

issue

4

eissn

0899-7667

issn

1530-888X

journal_volume

9

pub_type

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