PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Carl J. Hodgetts
AU  - Ulrike Hahn
TI  - The limited place in cognitive space
AID  - 10.1101/2022.04.25.489165
DP  - 2022 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2022.04.25.489165
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/04/26/2022.04.25.489165.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/04/26/2022.04.25.489165.full
AB  - The idea that objects can be represented within multi-dimensional ‘cognitive spaces’ remains popular within psychology and neuroscience, and yet the restrictive topology of such spaces is seldom considered. Here, we show that it is possible, even within a simple set of items, to break such models by imposing neighbourhood relations that are incompatible with a purely spatial representation. These results highlight the fundamental limits of cognitive space as a representational format for complex cognition.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.