The thalamus is a small, bilateral structure in the diencephalon that integrates signals from
many areas of the CNS. This critical anatomical position allows the thalamus to influence …

A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of …

Similarity and categorization are fundamental processes in human cognition that help
complex organisms make sense of the cacophony of information in their environment. These …

The quality space hypothesis about conscious experience proposes that conscious sensory
states are experienced in relation to other possible sensory states. For instance, the colour …

In human neuroscience, studies of cognition are rarely grounded in non-task-
evoked,'spontaneous' neural activity. Indeed, studies of spontaneous activity tend to focus …

A complete neuroscience requires multilevel theories that address phenomena ranging from
higher-level cognitive behaviors to activities within a cell. We propose an extension to the …

How do we learn about what to learn about? Specifically, how do the neural elements in our
brain generalize what has been learned in one situation to recognize the common structure …

Localization and map** has been a long standing area of research, both in neuroscience,
to understand how mammals navigate their environment, as well as in robotics, to enable …

In human and non-human animals, conceptual knowledge is partially organized according
to low-dimensional geometries that rely on brain structures and computations involved in …

Highlights•A normative conception of control representations.•Representational
dimensionality and the separability versus generalizability trade-off.•Implications of …