What Are Nervous Systems For?

IF 1.8 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Ecological Psychology Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/10407413.2019.1615205

M. Fultot, P. Frazier, M. Turvey, C. Carello

引用次数: 10

Abstract

Abstract An underlying bias of contemporary cognitive science is that the brain and nervous system are in the business of carrying out computations and building representations. Gibson’s ecological approach, in contrast, is decidedly noncomputational and nonrepresentational. How, then, are we to construe the role of brain and nervous system? We consider this question against the backdrop of evidence for rich achievements in perception and action by agents without brains or nervous systems. If fundamental coordination of perception and action does not require a neural substrate, then what value is added in having one? And if the neural substrate is not in the representational–computational business, then what business is it in? We pursue answers grounded in the constraints of macroscopic, multicellular life and thermodynamics.

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神经系统的作用是什么?

摘要当代认知科学的一个潜在偏见是，大脑和神经系统正在进行计算和构建表征。相比之下，吉布森的生态学方法显然是非假设性和非代表性的。那么，我们该如何理解大脑和神经系统的作用呢？我们考虑这个问题的背景是，有证据表明，没有大脑或神经系统的特工在感知和行动方面取得了丰富的成就。如果感知和行动的基本协调不需要神经基质，那么拥有神经基质会增加什么价值？如果神经基质不在代表性计算业务中，那么它在什么业务中？我们寻求基于宏观、多细胞生命和热力学约束的答案。

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来源期刊

Ecological Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

3.30

自引率

10.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： This unique journal publishes original articles that contribute to the understanding of psychological and behavioral processes as they occur within the ecological constraints of animal-environment systems. It focuses on problems of perception, action, cognition, communication, learning, development, and evolution in all species, to the extent that those problems derive from a consideration of whole animal-environment systems, rather than animals or their environments in isolation from each other. Significant contributions may come from such diverse fields as human experimental psychology, developmental/social psychology, animal behavior, human factors, fine arts, communication, computer science, philosophy, physical education and therapy, speech and hearing, and vision research.