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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • The cognitive concept of representation is central to brain information processing theories.
  • Linking neuronal activity to representational content and cognitive theory is a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent insights gained from analyzing representational geometry in various cognitive domains.
  • To highlight how representational geometry bridges neuronal codes and cognitive theories.

Main Methods:

  • Characterizing representational geometry using representational distance matrices.
  • Comparing neural population codes across processing stages and between models and the brain.

Main Results:

  • Representational geometry captures both the information content and format in neural population codes.
  • This approach has yielded insights in perception, memory, cognition, and action.

Conclusions:

  • Representational geometry offers a valuable intermediate level of description for brain function.
  • It promises to explain brain computation through transformations of representational similarity structure.