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For many centuries scientists have wondered how the human brain represents thoughts in terms of the underlying biology of neural activity. Philosophers, linguists, cognitive scientists and others have proposed theories, for example suggesting that the brain organizes conceptual information in hierarchies of concepts, or that it instead represents different concepts in different local regions of the cortex.
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Mitchell, T.M. (2008). Computational Models of Neural Representations in the Human Brain. In: Jean-Fran, JF., Berthold, M.R., Horváth, T. (eds) Discovery Science. DS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88411-8_5
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