?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Representation%2C+Similarity%2C+and+the+Chorus+of+Prototypes&rft.creator=Edelman%2C+Shimon&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=It+is+proposed+to+conceive+of+representation+as+an+emergent+phenomenon+that+is+supervenient+on+patterns+of+activity+of+coarsely+tuned+and+highly+redundant+feature+detectors.+The+computational+underpinnings+of+the+outlined+concept+of+representation+are+(1)+the+properties+of+collections+of+overlapping+graded+receptive+fields%2C+as+in+the+biological+perceptual+systems+that+exhibit+hyperacuity-level+performance%2C+and+(2)+the+sufficiency+of+a+set+of+proximal+distances+between+stimulus+representations+for+the+recovery+of+the+corresponding+distal+contrasts+between+stimuli%2C+as+in+multidimensional+scaling.+The+present+preliminary+study+appears+to+indicate+that+this+concept+of+representation+is+computationally+viable%2C+and+is+compatible+with+psychological+and+neurobiological+data.&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F579%2F2%2F199711013.ps&rft.identifier=++Edelman%2C+Shimon++(1994)+Representation%2C+Similarity%2C+and+the+Chorus+of+Prototypes.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F579%2F