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Cognitive Computation
Published in: Cognitive Computation 3/2015

01-06-2015

On Findings of Category and Other Concept Cells in the Brain: Some Theoretical Perspectives on Mental Representation

Author: Asim Roy

Published in: Cognitive Computation | Issue 3/2015

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Abstract

There is substantial neurophysiological evidence from decades of single-cell studies that category and other concept cells exist in both human and animal brains. This indicates that the brain can generalize and create abstract concepts and encode and represent such abstractions using single cells. These single-cell findings cannot be accounted for and explained by the theory of distributed representation and population coding, the dominant theory in the brain sciences. In light of these findings, this paper reexamines the two contending mental representational schemes, localist and distributed, on the basis of computational efficiency, the ability to simultaneously process and activate many different concepts, and the structure for semantic cognition. The evidence for category and concept cells favors localist representation in the brain.
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Metadata
Title
On Findings of Category and Other Concept Cells in the Brain: Some Theoretical Perspectives on Mental Representation
Author
Asim Roy
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Cognitive Computation / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 1866-9956
Electronic ISSN: 1866-9964
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-014-9307-7

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