Although consciousness consists in the formation of representations, on the one hand, and of the coming and going of such representations, on the other hand i.e., although its contents are a continuous streaming of fusing and diffusing representations yet it is not merely this (PP II: 256).
Finally, we addressed whether memantine treatment not only prevented erroneous memories in tgCRND8 mice, but would also affect the normal formation of representations of salient novel objects.
This indicates that the tactile modality can mediate the formation of configural representations and use these representations to guide tactile search.
A rather different explanation for at least some of our results can be based on the suggestion that the hippocampus is important for the formation of structural representations (Aggleton and Pearce, 2001), or conjunctive representations (Rudy and Sutherland, 1989), or representations of the context (Nadel and Wilner, 1980), or relational representations (Eichenbaum et al., 1992).
As such it is tempting to speculate that our instructional manipulation acts to constrain the hypothesis space through the shaping of higher-order representations of the overall task structure in PFC, which ultimately influence the formation of memory representations of the linear hierarchy in the hippocampus.
The time has come to dig into the mechanisms lying behind the formation of dynamic representations as well as the interactions between cell types resulting in a unified representation of self-location.
These investigations produced insights into the nature of vision, the formation of mental representations of the external world, and the storage and retrieval of information in memory, among many other processes.
Areas of the brain that are required for the formation of spatial representations of the environment include the hippocampus and surrounding medial temporal lobes, which are also known to play a key role in episodic memory (the memory system for specific events).
It was recently shown that formation of memory representations for novel word-forms may occur rapidly and automatically and can be traced online by recording neurophysiological responses elicited by new lexical items in the process of their acquisition through repetitive exposure22,23,24,25.
Results from different lines of research showed that not only the structure formation of mental representations in long-term memory but also chunk formation in working memory are built up on BACs and relate systematically to movement structures.
These findings suggest that superior behavior is served by engaging sufficiently large, distributed patches of neural real estate, which might reflect the integration of independent populations of neurons that enables the formation of richer representations.
