Óscar Vilarroya

Neuroscience Without Representations (eBook, ePUB)

Building a Brain-in-a-World View

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Neuroscience Without Representations: Building a Brain-in-a-World View describes a non-representational characterization of the brain that also provides an accounting on how humans can rely on symbolic systems and its conditions of application to deal with the representational requirements of human knowledge. Applying an evolutionary perspective to cognition, as well as assuming certain tenets from what is known as "4E cognition¿ (embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition theories), this volume presents arguments to support a non-representational view of the brain while also outlining how non-representational brains can nevertheless be representationally knowledgeable.

As both views in isolation have limitations, Dr. Vilarroya takes these ideas in a combined approach that is supported upon detailed analyses of compelling recent studies. Further, this presents a detailed guide on how to implement the alternative notion of neural representation in a research plan. Readers will gain a better understanding of the centrality of the notion of representation in neuroscientific theories and what it means for a brain to represent something, what makes a neural activity a representation, and what is represented.

• Presents original arguments to support a non-representational view of the brain and outlines how non-representational brains can also be representationally knowledgeable
• Describes the basics of an alternative to the notion of neural representation
• Details the reasons underlying the unsuitability of notion of neural representation to address the brain as a cognitive organ
• Offers detailed analyses of relevant studies from a variety of fields, including cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary biology, behavioral sciences and biological anthropology
• Provides details to help guide design, implementation and interpretation of empirical studies in this field

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780443191732
• Artikelnr.: 70737250

Autorenporträt

Dr. Vilarroya heads the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit and the Social Brain Chair at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Neuroimaging Research group at the Fundació IMIM, Barcelona. As a researcher, he has published studies in the field of neuroimaging of psychiatric diseases, as well as in the domain of cognitive science and theoretical neurobiology. Vilarroya has developed theoretical models applied to the neurobiological study of normal and abnormal cognition (The Dissolution of Mind Rodopi, NY 2002), and has used this theoretical background to apply neuroimaging techniques to the study of psychiatric illness, as well as cognitive functions in general. In this sense, Vilarroya contributed to the creation in 2003 the Unitat de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva (URNC) in the Department of Psychiatry at UAB. Since then, he has contributed with to the publication of nearly 20 articles in indexed journals of which 15 are in the top quartiles of their disciplines. In the last five years, Vilarroya has also been awarded three competitive projects (two national and one European) and 3 more by direct contract. The URNC has been consolidated in structural and functional MRI, including semi-automatic, manual and functional protocols. The URNC is already considered one of the most relevant neuroimaging units within ADHD, with publications that are now a pioneering reference (one 2005 paper with 60 citations in Web of Knowledge), and publications that offer one of the early diagnostic signs in psychiatry based on neuroimaging.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mental Mechanisms
2. Biased and Incomplete Tasks
3. Analogies
4. Evolution
5. Neural Activity as Representation
6. A Non-Representational View of the Brain
7. Language Is Representational
8. Cognition in the Brain and in the Environment
9. Predicting and Preparing
10. Situational Awareness