Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!js7a+ From: js7a+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Price Salsman) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Fwd: Distributed Message-ID:Date: 26 Sep 89 08:40:40 GMT Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 10 When neural-net theorists speak of "Distributed Representation," do they mean distributed in time as well as space? To put it another way, is there any such thing as an "instantaneous" representation in a neural network? Of course, the outdated idea of a single-cell representation is to spatial distribution what an instantaneous representation is to temporal distribution. :James