Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Have you ever felt that you could really use a reference defending exactly the bold and sweeping claim you are making? I’ve recently stumbled upon a new way to solve this problem: cite the book you’re writing. That’s right! The very book that makes the claim that needs support. On …
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Speaking of evolutionary theory, I’m going to propose a “new-ish” course dealing with evolution and the mind. The goal is to cover some topics in psychology/neuroscience from an evolutionary perspective. The problem is to find a good title. Here are some options: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Evolutionary Psychology Minds, Brains, and …
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I finally updated most of my website after over a year of neglect. With help from Jim Virtel, we added a whole bunch of new links to my list of resources for students, such as information on how to study, apply to grad school, publish, and apply for jobs. Let me …
C, R, Gallistel and A. P. King, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. This is a rich and thought-provoking book. I cannot do it justice in a brief post so I apologize in advance for that. Roughly speaking, the book argues that (1) many …
Rick Cooper (psychology, U London) is putting together an issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (a new journal by the Cognitive Science Society) on the fascinating topic of cognitive control. They are soliciting commentaries on the introductory paper plus five target articles, including a nice one by our Pete Mandik. …
