Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Ben Baker for taking the time to offer his assessment of our project as well as some suggestions. Baker kindly notes the novelty of the project, its experimental design, and contribution to the debate about representations. He reports however being “somewhat put …
Ben Baker I admit I was somewhat put off by the first two sentences of Favela and Machery’s paper. It feels odd to use “mainstream___ism” to label merely the wide application of a concept – or even just use of the word “representation” – when we are not sure about …
Luis H. Favela and Edouard Machery We thank Dan Burnston and Nick Byrd for the opportunity to present and discuss our paper, “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences” (Favela & Machery, 2023) with The Brains Blog community. Our project was sparked by the following facts: …
This week on Brains, we are happy to host a discussion of the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences, centered around Louie Favela and Edouard Machery‘s recent paper, “Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences.” We’ll have a precis of the paper today …
We’re excited to release the final of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …
We’re excited to release the sixth of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …
