Representation in the Brain

• Main Author: Jonathan Edwards (auth)
• Other Authors: Asim Roy (auth), Juyang Weng (auth), Leonid Perlovsky (auth), Tarek Besold (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; spaces in the brain; localist representation; abstract cognitive system; cognitive architecture; complexity analysis; single cell theory; representation of abstract concepts; neural blackboard architecture; distributed representation; population coding
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This eBook contains ten articles on the topic of representation of abstract concepts, both simple and complex, at the neural level in the brain. Seven of the articles directly address the main competing theories of mental representation - localist and distributed. Four of these articles argue - eith...