Before revision:  Representation is a philosophical concept with a rich history going back at least to Aristotle. A careful reading of contemporary philosophy suggests four criteria of representation as they relate to neuroscience. First, a representation needs to correlate with the object in reality that it represents.
After revision:  Representation is a philosophical concept with a rich history going back to the ancient period. In order to clarify its usage in neuroscience, here we advance a link between the connotations of this term across these disciplines. We draw on a representation needs to correlate with the object in reality that it represents.