Pestilli's Human White Matter and Knowledge Representation Summary

Knowledge Representation Article Summary
Student Name
Institutional Affiliation
Knowledge Representation Article Summary
Definition of Terms
(a) White matter is the tissue via which information passes between distinct regions of grey matter in the central nervous system.
(b) Knowledge representation – the technical issue of encoding human reasoning and awareness into a symbolic understanding that facilitates it to be managed by knowledge systems.
(c) Qualitative research – it is a study that entails gathering and evaluating non-numerical data.
Summary 
Pestilli’s (2018) study is anchored on understanding knowledge presentation dynamics within the human brain, mainly white matter. The author noted that neuroscience experts barely understand how knowledge is denoted within the human’s white matter. Thesis statement: this paper reviewed the evidence for representing localized and distributed semantic knowledge, mapped the disconnection syndromes through representational variation, and detailed a proposal for human’s white matter tracts possibly entailed in semantic knowledge representation. Experimental design: Pestilli’s paper entails reviewing the literature to understand the representati...