neural representation
the brain’s model of the outside world, based on the overall neural coding that occurs in the brain and on which parts of the brain are activated during a particular mental experience. This representation includes content (what is being seen, felt, heard, remembered, thought, etc.) and function (the role of the neural signals in the organism’s response to a stimulus). Research is ongoing to plot the neural representations of odor memories, semantic processing in bilingual people, and various emotions, for example,.