?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Representation+With+Receptive+Fields%3A++Gearing+Up+For+Recognition&rft.creator=Weiss%2C+Yair&rft.creator=Edelman%2C+Shimon&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=We+consider+the+representational+capabilities+of+systems+of+receptive+fields+found+in+early+mammalian+vision%2C+under+the+assumption+that+the+successive+stages+of+processing+remap+the+retinal+representation+space+in+a+manner+that+makes+objectively+similar+stimuli+(such+as+different+views+of+the+same+3D+object)+closer+to+each+other%2C+and+dissimilar+stimuli+farther+apart.+We+present+theoretical+analysis+and+computational+experiments+that+compare+the+similarity+between+stimuli+as+they+are+represented+at+the+successive+levels+of+the+processing+hierarchy%2C+from+the+retina+to+the+nonlinear+cortical+units.+Our+results+indicate+that+the+representations+at+the+higher+levels+of+the+hierarchy+are+indeed+more+useful+for+the+classification+of+natural+objects+such+as+human+faces.&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F583%2F2%2F199711017.ps&rft.identifier=++Weiss%2C+Yair+and+Edelman%2C+Shimon++(1994)+Representation+With+Receptive+Fields%3A+Gearing+Up+For+Recognition.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F583%2F