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Investigating neural representations: the tale of place cells.

While neuroscientists often characterize brain activity as representational, many philosophers have construed these accounts as just theorists' glosses on the mechanism. Moreover, philosophical discussions commonly focus on finished accounts of explanation, not research in progress. I adopt a differ...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 5; pp. 1287 - 1322
Main Author: Bechtel, William
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2016
Subjects:
Representation (Philosophy)
Grid cells
Neurosciences
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Information processing
Hippocampus (Brain)
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