Cognitive NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-05-12DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2349546
Davy Mougenot, Heath Matheson
{"title":"Theoretical strategies for an embodied cognitive neuroscience: Mechanistic explanations of brain-body-environment systems.","authors":"Davy Mougenot, Heath Matheson","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2349546","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2349546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive neuroscience seeks to explain mind, brain, and behavior. But how do we generate explanations? In this integrative theoretical paper, we review the commitments of the 'New Mechanist' movement within the philosophy of science, focusing specifically on the role of mechanistic models in scientific explanation. We highlight how this approach differs from other explanatory approaches within the field, showing its unique contributions to the efforts of scientific explanation. We then argue that the commitments of the Embodied Cognition framework converge with the commitments of the New Mechanist movement in a way that provides a necessary explanatory strategy available to cognitive neuroscience. We then discuss a number of consequences of this convergence, including issues related to the inadequacy of statistical prediction, neuroscientific reduction, the autonomy of psychology from neuroscience, and psychological and neuroscientific ontology. We hope that our integrative thesis provides researchers with a theoretical strategy for an embodied cognitive neuroscience.</p>","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"85-97"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140911717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2405192
Gualtiero Piccinini
{"title":"Embodied (4EA) cognitive computational neuroscience.","authors":"Gualtiero Piccinini","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2405192","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2405192","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I argue that ideas and models about the mechanisms of neural computation and representation - including computational architecture, representational format, encoding schemes, learning methods, computation-representation coordination, and substrate-dependent aspects - must be tested by studying embodied neural systems. Thus, cognitive computational neuroscience - the study of neural computations over neural representations - must be an embodied research program.</p>","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2405187
Andrew Richmond, Jonathan G Bowen, Lucas Firas Kayssi, Kardelen Küçük, Varun Ravikumar, M Yunus Şahin, Michael L Anderson
{"title":"Imposing vs finding unity.","authors":"Andrew Richmond, Jonathan G Bowen, Lucas Firas Kayssi, Kardelen Küçük, Varun Ravikumar, M Yunus Şahin, Michael L Anderson","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2405187","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2405187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The target article argues that embodied cognitive neuroscience converges on a mechanistic approach to explanation. We argue that it does not. Even some of the article's <i>paradigms</i> for embodied cognitive neuroscience are explicitly non- or anti-mechanistic.</p>","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"122-123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142342874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2403350
Marcin Miłkowski, Przemysław Robert Nowakowski
{"title":"Beyond embodiment: Rethinking the integration of cognitive neuroscience and mechanistic explanations.","authors":"Marcin Miłkowski, Przemysław Robert Nowakowski","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2403350","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2403350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This commentary critiques Mougenot and Matheson's proposal to integrate embodied cognition with mechanistic explanations in cognitive neuroscience. We suggest more promising directions for embodied cognitive neuroscience, focusing on neuroethological research and evolutionary studies of nervous systems. These approaches, compatible with wide mechanistic explanations, offer a robust path forward by examining central nervous system function within whole organisms in their environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"114-116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2403337
Anna M Borghi
{"title":"Mechanistic explanation and the integration between language and action.","authors":"Anna M Borghi","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2403337","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2403337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mechanistic explanations can contribute to strengthening embodied and grounded cognition, capturing the causal structure that produces phenomena. In the commentary, I propose two cases for which a mechanistic explanation would be extremely useful to advance research and understanding. The first, more specific case concerns the need for a mechanistic explanation of the contrasting interference and facilitation results of action-language integration. The second case is more general and regards the importance of providing mechanistic explanations that consider the critical role language, intended as a holistic experience, has in impacting bodily actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"98-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hippocampus and implicit memory (by any other name).","authors":"E. Spaak","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2343651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2024.2343651","url":null,"abstract":"Is the hippocampus involved in implicit memory? I argue that contemporary views on hippocampal function, going beyond the classic dichotomy of explicit versus implicit, predict involvement of the hippocampus whenever flexible, predictive associations are rapidly encoded. This involvement is independent of conscious awareness. A paradigm case is statistical learning: the unconscious extraction of statistical regularities from the environment. In line with this, a substantial body of literature on contextual cueing in visual search has established hippocampal involvement in this form of implicit learning. To conclude, implicit memory (as such or by any other name) is associated with the hippocampus.","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"3 8","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140653024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unconscious processing effects manifest only if conscious processing is excluded.","authors":"Katharina Henke, S. Ruch","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2343658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2024.2343658","url":null,"abstract":"In their discussion paper Steinkrauss and Slotnick argue against a role for the hippocampus in unconscious memory formation and retrieval. Unfortunately, they omitted highly relevant evidence that supports a role for the hippocampus in unconscious memory. They criticize four articles, two from our laboratory, pointing out long-known confounds like residual consciousness. We uncover these reproaches as untrue allegations. In our own interest, we prevented conscious mnemonic processing because reliable unconscious memory effects manifest only if consciousness is completely excluded, and because we always knew that residual consciousness would be our Achilles heel for the proponents of the 'explicit memory dogma.'","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"1 4","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140652667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dismissing the role of the hippocampus in implicit memory is special pleading","authors":"Marc Alain Züst","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2343663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2024.2343663","url":null,"abstract":"Steinkrauss and Slotnick (this issue) argue against hippocampal involvement in implicit memory, bringing up some important considerations. Their critique, however, exhibits significant flaws. The a...","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concerns about confounds: False memory as an explanation for a hippocampus-supported implicit eye-movement-based relational memory effect","authors":"Deborah E. Hannula","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2343655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2024.2343655","url":null,"abstract":"Steinkrauss and Slotnick (2024) propose that implicit eye-movement-based relational memory effects, predicted by hippocampal activity differences (Hannula & Ranganath, 2009), are due to an explicit...","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Preston P. Thakral, Elizabeth R. Cutting, Kiera E. Lawless
{"title":"The dead salmon strikes again: Reports of unconscious processing in the hippocampus may reflect Type-I error","authors":"Preston P. Thakral, Elizabeth R. Cutting, Kiera E. Lawless","doi":"10.1080/17588928.2024.2343667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2024.2343667","url":null,"abstract":"Steinkrauss and Slotnick (2024) reviewed neuroimaging studies linking the hippocampus with implicit memory. They conclude that there is no convincing evidence that the hippocampus is associated wit...","PeriodicalId":10413,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuroscience","volume":"141 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140637094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}