What does it take to show the brain represents something? We offer a framework that brings conceptual clarity to representation, systematizing how decoding, encoding, RSA, etc. bear on that question. This makes explicit what findings establish and where interpretations go too far.
Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience — a Perspective by Stephan Pohl, Edgar Y. Walker, David L. Barack, Jennifer Lee, Rachel N. Denison, Ned Block, Florent Meyniel & Wei Ji Ma
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Appeals to representation are widespread, despite neuroscientists’ uncertainty about what kind of findings count as evidence for such claims. In this Perspective, Pohl and colleagues develop a unified...
