Distributed memory and the representation of general and specific information.

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Abstract
We store abstract representations or an enumeration,of specific experiences in memory. The model simulates the results of a number,of important experiments which,have been taken as evidence for the enumeration,of specific experiences. At the same time, it shows how the functional equivalent of abstract representa- tions—prototypes, logogens, and even rules—can emerge from the superposition of traces of specific experiences, when the conditions are right for this to happen. In essence, the model captures the structure present in a set of input patterns; thus, it behaves as though it had learned prototypes or rules, to the extent that the structure of the environment,it has learned about,can,be captured,by describing it in terms of these abstractions. In the late 1960s and early 1970s a number ,demonstration,of this basic point comes,from

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