Mark Sprevak and Francis Fallon: Intro to the Symposium
Representations are thought to be among the essential ingredients for explaining cognition. In cognitive psychology, behaviour and decision making are modelled in terms of computations performed over representations. In neuroscience,…
Representations are thought to be among the essential ingredients for explaining cognition. In cognitive psychology, behaviour and decision making are modelled in terms of computations performed over representations. In neuroscience, responses of single cells, neural populations, and structural features are claimed to function as representations for the agent in question. In AI, what machines learn is often characterized in terms of the kinds of representations those machines acquire and how they manipulate them.
