COGS 11.02 Representation and the Brain

Neuroimaging, and with it cognitive neuroscience, is undergoing a conceptual revolution. This course uses philosophical and neuroscientific approaches to explore the changes in our conceptions of mental and neural representation that are prompted by recent advances in brain imaging that use multivariate approaches to analyzing brain imaging data. These new methods radically change the way we conceive of the nature of mental representation. Using a combination of philosophical texts, scientific review papers, and primary research papers, we try to re-conceptualize how the brain represents the world.

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