Dondersian dreams in brain-mappers' minds, or, still no cross-fertilization between mind mappers and cognitive modelers?

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur M. Jacobs ◽  
Frank Rösler
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Subtraction Method ◽  
Brain Waves ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Processing Activity ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Pulvermüller identifies two major flaws of the subtraction method of neuroimaging studies and proposes remedies. We argue that these remedies are themselves flawed and that the cognitive science community badly needs to take initial steps toward a cross-fertilization between mind mappers and cognitive modelers. Such steps could include the development of computational task models that transparently and falsifiably link the input (stimuli) and output (changes in blood flow or brain waves) of neuroimaging studies to changes in information processing activity that is the stuff of cognitive models.

scholarly journals Neo-mechanistic explanatory integration for cognitive science: the problem of reduction remains

Sofia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Azevedo Leite
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Multi Level

One of the central aims of the neo-mechanistic framework for the neural and cognitive sciences is to construct a pluralistic integration of scientific explanations, allowing for a weak explanatory autonomy of higher-level sciences, such as cognitive science. This integration involves understanding human cognition as information processing occurring in multi-level human neuro-cognitive mechanisms, explained by multi-level neuro-cognitive models. Strong explanatory neuro-cognitive reduction, however, poses a significant challenge to this pluralist ambition and the weak autonomy of cognitive science derived therefrom. Based on research in current molecular and cellular neuroscience, the framework holds that the best strategy for integrating human neuro-cognitive theories is through direct reductive explanations based on molecular and cellular neural processes. It is my aim to investigate whether the neo-mechanistic framework can meet the challenge. I argue that leading neo-mechanists offer some significant replies; however, they are not able yet to completely remove strong explanatory reductionism from their own framework.

Supercharged Apes versus Super-Sized Minds

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Louise Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Processing Activity ◽  
Evolutionary Continuity ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Processing Framework ◽  
The Way

Clark’s philosophy brings body, brain, and world together again, offering a new conception of both human and nonhuman cognition. This chapter agrees that the predictive processing framework provides our best bet for a species-neutral cognitive science. However, the use of cognitivist, representational language often seems unnecessary, especially when J. J. Gibson introduced a “resonance” metaphor to replace notions of representation, hypothesis, and inference. This chapter is therefore interested to know why Clark resists embracing Gibson, when this seems one of the best ways to embrace evolutionary continuity. The chapter also raises the apparent tension between the predictive processing position and that of the extended mind: Is the brain the principal seat of information-processing activity? Or is it userless tools all the way down? Finally, the chapter raises the issue of epistemic artefacts, and whether these increase or decrease cognitive load.

scholarly journals ‘Pure’ Constructional Apraxia—A Cognitive Analysis of a Single Case

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Trojano ◽  
Dario Grossi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Motor Output ◽  
Cognitive Analysis ◽  
Cerebral Lesions ◽  
Recent Information ◽  
Geometric Figures ◽  
Constructional Apraxia

We report on a patient affected by selective drawing disabilities. The patient could correctly reproduce and draw simple geometric figures on request, but when he tried to reproduce more complex drawings or to draw common objects he performed very poorly. To identify the cognitive impairment in this patient, we adopted two test batteries based on recent information-processing models of drawing. Results showed that the patient’s drawing disabilities were independent of visuo-perceptual and executive impairments. These findings support recent cognitive models of drawing abilities: some intermediate stages of drawing exist at which information is processed to prepare and guide motor output, and which may be selectively disrupted after discrete cerebral lesions.

Information processing by elderly consumers: a five-decade review

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluigi Guido ◽  
Marco Pichierri ◽  
Cristian Rizzo ◽  
Verdiana Chieffi ◽  
George Moschis
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Processing Activity ◽  
Elderly Consumers

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review scholarly research on elderly consumers’ information processing and suggest implications for services marketing. Design/methodology/approach The review encompasses a five-decade period (1970–2018) of academic research and presents relevant literature in four main areas related to information processing: sensation, attention, interpretation and memory. Findings The study illustrates how each of the aforementioned phases of the information processing activity may affect how elderly individuals buy and consume products and services, emphasizing the need for a better comprehension of the elderly to develop effectual marketing strategies. Originality/value The study provides readers with detailed state-of-the-art knowledge about older consumers’ information processing, offering a comprehensive review of academic research that companies can use to improve the effectiveness of their marketing efforts that target the elderly market.

Vygotsky and cognitive science: Language and the unification of the social and computational mind. William Frawley. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. 384.

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Beals
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociocultural Theories ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Important Position

Vygotsky's social psycholinguist approach is not incompatible with computational approaches to the study of mind. In this way William Frawley sets the stage for a Vygoskyan cognitive science. Socioculturalists' theorizing on the work of the human mind has long maintained boundaries against cognitive science's information processing approaches and language, and vice versa. Frawley argues that no such division is entirely necessary and offers powerful ways of linking the two ways of thinking. Frawley's background in both Vygotskyan and other sociocultural theories, as well as in cognitive science and computational theories, places him in an important position to make these links.

Testing Cognitive Models through Computer-Controlled Experiments

1971 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. David Hughes ◽  
Jose L. Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Subjective Probability ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Controlled Experiment ◽  
Subjective Probabilities ◽  
Controlled Experiments ◽  
New Model ◽  
New Information ◽  
Computer Controlled

A computer-controlled experiment was used to test balance, reinforcement, and congruity models and to develop a new model to predict changes in buyers’ subjective probabilities after receiving new information. Subjective probability and attitude models were tested to determine their utility in studying buyers’ information processing.

Welcome to Wales: Searle on the Computational Theory of Mind

1995 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Roger Fellows
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Blood Flow ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Computational Theory Of Mind ◽  
Computational Theory ◽  
Linguistic Understanding ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Computational Processes

In a recent book devoted to giving an overview of cognitive science, Justin Lieber writes:…dazzingly complex computational processes achieve our visual and linguistic understanding, but apart from a few levels of representation these are as little open to our conscious view as the multitudinous rhythm of blood flow through the countless vessels of our brain.It is the aim of hundreds of workers in the allied fields of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence to unmask these computation processes and install them in digital computers.

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