A Philosophical Understanding of Representation for Neuroscience
arXiv Preprint Archive February 12, 2021 Ben Baker, Benjamin Lansdell, Konrad Kording
Neuroscientists often describe neural activity as a representation of something, or claim to have found evidence for a neural representation. But what do these statements mean? The reasons to call some neural activity a representation and the assumptions that come with this term are not generally made clear from its common uses in neuroscience. Representation is a central concept in philosophy...