A precis of my book, Attention, can be found at Lisa Bortolotti’s blog, Imperfect Cognitions: https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.de/2014/07/attention.html Both Lisa and I were featured scholars here as Jakob is now (thanks John). I still(!) think attention is important and happy to have any discussion of the topic or on the book, here …
Today’s NY Times has an article about a new paper in Psychological Science on whether talent or practice is more important for elite performance. In a meta-analysis, the psychologists “found that deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education, …
The prediction error minimization (PEM) account of brain function may explain perception, learning, action, attention and understanding. That at least is what its proponents claim, and I suggested in an earlier post that perhaps the brain does nothing but minimize its prediction error. So far I haven’t talked explicitly about …
Sorry not to have done one of these posts in a while! The following articles by Brains contributors were added to PhilPapers from April through June. Please let me know of any errors or omissions. – JS Marcus Arvan (forthcoming). A Unified Explanation of Quantum Phenomena? The Case for the Peer-to-Peer Simulation …
One of the anonymous reviewers of my book manuscript remarked, with approval, that it contained very little discussion of embodied, extended and enactive (EEE) cognition. Probably this omission stems from my Kantian gut feeling that an explanation of mind and cognition must appeal only to what happens after sensory input …
Man, this looks really excellent. (h/t David Pereplyotchik)
It is a great pleasure to write a few posts here on Brains. In this first post I will talk a little about the kind of work I like to do. Then the plan for post 2 is to ask if prediction error minimization is all there is to the …
