The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
Jordana Cepelewiczquantamagazine.org
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each paid attention to a different aspect of the creature. The brain may do something similar by mapping out the qualities of perceptions, experiences and abstract concepts along various dimensions, with the help of the same system that it uses to map out physical spaces.
Jordana Cepelewicz • The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.
Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.