A New Foundation for Representation in Cognitive and Brain Science C
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
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Jaime Gómez-Ramirez
A New Foundation for Representation in Cognitive and Brain Science Category Theory and the Hippocampus
A New Foundation for Representation in Cognitive and Brain Science
Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems Volume 7 Series Editor Vassilis Cutsuridis Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Jaime Gómez-Ramirez
A New Foundation for Representation in Cognitive and Brain Science Category Theory and the Hippocampus
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Jaime Gómez-Ramirez Departamento de Automática Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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To my wife Sarah for her tireless support, love and uncanny feminine mystique To our son Bertrand for having taught me more that I have him
Preface
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one
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