Representation in the Brain

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Asim Roy, Leonid Perlovsky, Tarek Besold, Juyang Weng, Jonathan Edwards
Frontiers Media SA, Sep 28, 2018

 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 – either on a theoretical basis or with neurophysiological evidence – that abstract concepts, simple or complex, exist (have to exist) at either the single cell level or in an exclusive neural cell assembly. There are three other papers that argue for sparse distributed representation (population coding) of abstract concepts. 

There are two other papers that discuss neural implementation of symbolic models. 

The remaining paper deals with learning of motor skills from imagery versus actual execution. 

A summary of these papers is provided in the Editorial.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Representation in the Brain
4
No Representation without Communication
7
The Evidence from Cortical Columns Category Cells and Multisensory Neurons
12
Roles for Individual Neurons
26
What Can 30 Years of Hindsight Tell Us about How the Brain Might Represent Visual Information?
36
A Spiking Neuron Model of Word Associations for the Remote Associates Test
52
A TopDown Model of the Entorhinal Hippocampal Complex
66
From Neurons to Meanings
85
Information Compression Multiple Alignment and the Representation and Processing of Knowledge in the Brain
97
Linking Neural and Symbolic Representation and Processing of Conceptual Structures
122
Three Perspectives on Motor Learning by Way of Imagery and Execution
138
Back Cover
146
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TitleRepresentation in the Brain
Frontiers Research Topics
EditorsAsim Roy, Leonid Perlovsky, Tarek Besold, Juyang Weng, Jonathan Edwards
PublisherFrontiers Media SA, 2018
ISBN2889455963, 9782889455966
  
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