Category: Philosophy of neuroscience
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Robustness of Working Memory to Prefrontal Cortex Microstimulation
By Joana Soldado-Magraner (CMU), Yuki Minai (CMU), Byron M. Yu (CMU), Matthew A. Smith (CMU) Abstract Delay period activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) has been linked to the…
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Mapping Content: Why Cognitive Maps are Non-conceptual Mental States
By Arieh Schwartz (London School of Economics) and Nir Fresco (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Abstract Cognitive maps play a crucial role in mammalian navigation. They provide the organism with…
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On a New Content Indeterminacy Problem in Neuroscience
By Caitlin MaceDepartment of History and Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh Find Caitlin’s recently published paper in Philosophical Psychology here. Abstract Whether neurons represent or play a mere causal role…
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Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’
Epistemic reduction of the concept of ‘decision’By: Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) Abstract: “Reduction” is a widely rejected view of how commonsense psychological notions relate to neuroscience. I argue that there…
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Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model
Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion ModelBy: Ari Khoudary (UC Irvine), Megan A.K. Peters (UC Irvine), & Aaron Bornstein (UC Irvine) Abstract:…
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Explaining Mechanism-Task Fit in Neuroscience
By Aliya RumanaCenter for Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh Abstract:David Marr famously argued that computational theory (i.e., analysis at the computational level) was required to explain both “what the device…
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Robustness and Modularity
Functional robustness refers to a system’s ability to maintain a function in the face of perturbations to the causal structures that support performance of that function. Modularity, a crucial element…
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