TY - BOOK ID - 30707765 TI - After phrenology : neural reuse and the interactive brain PY - 2014 SN - 0262320673 0262028107 1322519668 9780262320672 9780262028103 0262321157 9780262321150 0262320681 0262027569 1322094705 0262321165 0262528835 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Brain KW - Physiology. KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General KW - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology KW - NEUROSCIENCE/General KW - Neuropsychology KW - Methods KW - Cognition KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Physiology of nerves and sense organs KW - Physiology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30707765 AB - "The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each brain region must have its fundamental computation. In After Phrenology, Michael Anderson argues that to achieve a fully post-phrenological science of the brain, we need to reassess this commitment and devise an alternate, neuroscientifically grounded taxonomy of mental function. Anderson contends that the cognitive roles played by each region of the brain are highly various, reflecting different neural partnerships established under different circumstances. He proposes quantifying the functional properties of neural assemblies in terms of their dispositional tendencies rather than their computational or information-processing operations. Exploring larger-scale issues, and drawing on evidence from embodied cognition, Anderson develops a picture of thinking rooted in the exploitation and extension of our early-evolving capacity for iterated interaction with the world. He argues that the multidimensional approach to the brain he describes offers a much better fit for these findings, and a more promising road toward a unified science of minded organisms"--MIT CogNet. ER -