Neural Oscillations as Representations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8398373
AutoresManolo Martínez (0000-0002-6194-7121, Universitat de Barcelona, autor correspondente), Marc Artiga (0000-0003-1247-2809, Universitat de València, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume74
Fascículo3
Páginas619-648
Data de publicação2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/714914
OpenAlexW3080191222
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas99

We explore the contribution made by oscillatory, synchronous neural activity to representation in the brain. We closely examine six prominent examples of brain function in which neural oscillations play a central role, and identify two levels of involvement that these oscillations take in the emergence of representations: enabling (when oscillations help to establish a communication channel between sender and receiver, or are causally involved in triggering a representation) and properly representational (when oscillations are a constitutive part of the representation). We show that even an idealized informational sender–receiver account of representation makes the representational status of oscillations a non-trivial matter, which depends on rather minute empirical details

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