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Neural representation of sensory data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Jonathan Polimeni  and
Eric Schwartz
Jonathan Polimeni
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 jonnyreb@bu.edu
Eric Schwartz
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 eric@bu.edu http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Schwartz.html
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Abstract

In the target article Pylyshyn revives the spectre of the “little green man,” arguing for a largely symbolic representation of visual imagery. To clarify this problem, we provide precise definitions of the key term “picture,” present some examples of our definition, and outline an information-theoretic analysis suggesting that the problem of addressing data in the brain requires a partially analogue and partially symbolic solution. This is made concrete in the ventral stream of object recognition, from V1 to IT cortex.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 207 - 208
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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