A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

MICHAEL L. ANDERSON language region despite the frequency with which it is activated in
nonlanguage tasks. Since seeing neural reuse as a fundamental feature of the func tional …

This paper defends cognitive neuroscience's project of developingmechanistic explanations
of cognitive processes through decompositionand localization against objections raised by …

Cognition can be defined as computation over meaningful representations in the brain to
produce adaptive behaviour. There are two views on the relationship between cognition and …

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover the biological foundations of the human mind.
One goal is to explain how mental operations are generated by the information processing …

Context: Challenges by embodied, enactive, extended and ecological approaches to
cognition have provided good reasons to shift away from neurocentric theories. Problem …

In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous,
and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition …

In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained
monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of …

A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes
manifest from the operations of brain tissue. This significant contribution to neuroscience …

EC treats cognition as a set of tools evolved by organisms for coping with their
environments. Each of the key terms in this characterization—tool, evolved, organisms …