A common basis to the study of these fields is provided by the concept of similarity. Dr. Edelman's research concentrates on developing mathematical solutions to the representation of structure and of similarity in visual perception and recognition and in other branches of cognitive science, on experimental assessment of these solutions as models of human performance, and on bringing the theoretical understanding to bear on data from neurobiological studies of cognition in the brain. Visual recognition and categorization on the basis of similarities to multiple class prototypes. Computational theories of object recognition.
Representation is representation of similarities.
Representation and Recognition in Vision. Learning as extraction of low- dimensional representations.