{"id":7754,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/distributed_representation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:17","slug":"distributed_representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/distributed_representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributed representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derived from work in connectionism on recognition tasks and semantics, and articulated in the book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">The computational brain<\/span> (1992) by <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu\/faculty\/pschurchland\/index_hires.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu\/faculty\/pschurchland\/index_hires.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patricia S. Churchland <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/salk.edu\/faculty\/sejnowski.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/salk.edu\/faculty\/sejnowski.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terrence J. Sejnowski<\/a>, it is the concept that single perceptual, cognitive or motor functions may be found over physically separate regions of the central nervous system, and that single regions of the nervous system may participate in multiple functions. &nbsp;In connectionism, it is another term for distributed network model.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"auto-encoder_networks\">Auto-encoder networks<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebral_cortex_-functions-\">Cerebral cortex (functions)<\/a>, <a href=\"connectionism\">Connectionism<\/a>, <a href=\"neural_net\">Neural net<\/a>, <a href=\"representation_-mental-\">Representation (mental)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derived from work in connectionism on recognition tasks and semantics, and articulated in the book The computational brain (1992) by Patricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski, it is the concept that single perceptual, cognitive or motor functions may be found over physically separate regions of the central nervous system, and that single regions of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/distributed_representation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Distributed representation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}