On the biological plausibility of grandmother cells: implications for neural network theories in psychology and neuroscience.

By Jeffrey S. Bowers. 2009

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Generalization Through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories (2012, background): “…stimulus, or concept, in a stimulus set is interpreted as consistent with the notion of sparse distributed representations, rather than localist representations (i.e., where a single neuron or distinct population of neurons represents only one entity), as advocated by Bowers (2009) or Page (2000).”
The emergence of number and syntax units in LSTM language models (2019, positive): “We found that the LSTM had specialized two “grandmother” cells (Bowers, 2009) to carry number features from the subject to the verb across the intervening material.”
Conceptual representations in mind and brain: theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions. (2012, methodology): “…influential theories of conceptual representation developed in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence assume that a concept is represented as a node within a unitary semantic network (Collins and Loftus, 1975; Collins and Quillian, 1969; Quillian, 1969; Bowers, 2009; Anderson, 1983).”
Locating object knowledge in the brain: comment on Bowers's (2009) attempt to revive the grandmother cell hypothesis. (2010, background): “In summary, physiological evidence does not appear to help the case in favor of the localist representation scheme that Bowers (2009) defended.”
The spatial coding model of visual word identification. (2010, background): “…even be postulated that there are individual cells in the brain that code for specific words (e.g., an individual neuron that codes the word cat; Bowers, 2009); in support of such an account, recent evidence with functional magnetic resonance imaging rapid adaptation techniques provides…”
Grandmother cells and localist representations: a review of current thinking (2017, background): “In their commentary of Bowers (2009) paper, Quian Quiroga and Kreiman (2010) were critical of my claim that grandmother cells are biologically plausible, but the disagreements between Kreiman and myself are largely resolved in this contribution, and I think this largely reflects using the same…”
Interactive Activation and Mutual Constraint Satisfaction in Perception and Cognition (2014, methodology): “The processing units might be viewed as standing for populations of neurons dedicated to the corresponding cognitive units (Bowers, 2009), but we hold a different view.”