Grateful for the chance to clarify our framework: our reply to Overgaard & Kirkeby-Hinrup's "Boundary issues for multidimensional frameworks of representation" — a comment on our Perspective on the conceptual dimensions of representation, in Nature Reviews Neuroscience: rdcu.be/frSNr (1/3)
Stephan Pohl
@stephanpohl.bsky.social
PhD candidate in philosophy at New York University.
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 www.nature.com/articles/s41...