A New Foundation for Representation in Cognitive and Brain Science Category Theory and the Hippocampus /

• Main Author: Gómez-Ramirez, Jaime (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems ; 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy.; Neurology.; Artificial intelligence.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Biological psychology.; Biomedicine.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Philosophy, general.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Biological Psychology.

The purpose of the book is to advance in the understanding of brain function by defining a general framework for representation based on category theory. The idea is to bring this mathematical formalism into the domain of neural representation of physical spaces, setting the basis for a theory of me...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Research tools and paradigms
• State of the Art: Mathematical approaches in brain science
• The Categorical Imperative: Category theory in Cognitive and Brain Science
• Elementary principles in cognitive systems modeling
• The shift towards structure
• A general framework for representation
• Towards a Theory of Brain Structure and Function
• A theory of hippocampus structure and function based on Category Theory
• From Cells to Memories. A Categorical Approach
• Epilogue.