The cerebral hemispheres and neural network simulations: design considerations

The conclusions concerning hemispheric specializations based on neural network simulations, which were previously reported by Kosslyn, Chabris, Marsolek, and Koenig (1992), are shown not to be valid. Differences in network performance on tasks said to be "categorical" and "coordinate spatial" in nature were due to imbalances in the input stimuli and cannot, in principle, be related to differences in performance on such tasks in human subjects. The use of truth tables and correlation coefficients in the design of neural networks is discussed.