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Title: Levels of explanation in cognitive science
Related: Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009) (30 September - 2 October 2009 : Sydney)
Related: Christensen, Wayne; Schier, Elizabeth and Sutton, John. ASCS09 : proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, p.57-60
DOI: 10.5096/ASCS20099
Publisher: North Ryde, NSW : Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Author/Creator: Coltheart, Max
Description: Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind. Two of its constituent disciplines are cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Each of these can provide partial explanations of how people are able to perform certain tasks. The explanations from cognitive psychology are hypotheses about mental-information-processing programs. The explanations from cognitive neuroscience are hypotheses about the nature of the neural hardware on which these programs run. At present it is quite unclear whether findings in either of these domains can constrain hypotheses in the other; I argue that there are so far no examples of this actually having happened.
Description: 4 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: brain imaging
Subject Keyword: mind
Subject Keyword: cognitive psychology
Subject Keyword: cognitive science
Subject Keyword: cognitive neuroscience
Subject Keyword: levels of explanation
Resource Type: ASCS09 : Proceedings Of The 9th Conference Of The Australasian Society For Cognitive Science
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/126798
Identifier: ISBN:9780646529189
Identifier: mq-rm-2009011753
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright 2009 by the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, ASCS09 : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.
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