recategorizations

The nature of the brain's "representations" ” if there is such a thing ” of the world, the self, the past and present, remains puzzling, as the very different approaches we have described suggest: Changeux's view of "long-lasting global representations"; Edelman and Tononi's view of memory as constructive recategorizations, and Rizzolatti's stunning discovery of mirror neurons, suggesting that we know and understand others, to some extent, through neural imitation.

How the Mind Works: Revelations Rosenfield, Israel 2008