Nina Poth and Krys Dolega will livestream “Believing Conspiracy Theories: A Bayesian Approach to Belief Protection” on March 25

The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar— “Believing Conspiracy Theories: A Bayesian Approach to Belief Protection”—will be delivered by Nina Poth & Krys Dolega on Friday the 25th. See below for details about the free talk and how to join. Embodied simulation and its role in cognition Nina Poth & Krys …

Vittorio Gallese will livestream “Embodied simulation and its role in cognition” on March 11

The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar— “Embodied simulation and its role in cognition”—will be delivered by Vittorio GALLESE on Friday the 11th. See below for details about the free talk and how to join. Embodied simulation and its role in cognition Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma) 11 March 2022h15-17 Greenwhich …

Patricia Churchland to livestream “Brain mechanisms and the platform for morality” February 25th

The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar— “Brain mechanisms and the platform for morality”—will be delivered by Patricia Churchland on Friday the 25th. See below for details about the free talk and how to join.

Daniel Burnston & Philipp Haueis, Evolving Concepts of “Hierarchy” in Systems Neuroscience

Daniel Burnston (Tulane University) and Philipp Haueis (Bielefeld University) are the authors of this last post in this book symposium for the edited volume Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience (Springer 2021). Concepts in science change over time.  As new results are discovered and incorporated into an existing theoretical framework, …

Bryce Gessell, (Behind The Stage of) Prediction and Topological Models in Neuroscience

Bryce Gessell (Southern Virginia University) is the first author of this third post in this book symposium for the edited volume Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience (Springer 2021). We called our chapter “Prediction and Topological Models in Neuroscience,” and we wrote it in the spirit of Jack Gallant. Let …

Daniel Weiskopf, What Decoding Can’t Do

Daniel Weiskopf (Georgia State University) is the author of this third post in this book symposium for the edited volume Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience (Springer 2021). Neuroimaging has seen major advances in experimental design and data analysis in recent decades. Among these are new methods, provocatively referred to …

Mazviita Chirimuuta, Your Brain Is Like a Computer: Function, Analogy, Simplification

Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) is the author of this second post in this book symposium for the edited volume Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience (Springer 2021). Science is a project of domestication in which the wild forces of nature are tamed and set to work for human advantage. We need …

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