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  1. Passive frame theory: A new synthesis.Ezequiel Morsella, Godwin Christine, Jantz Tiffany, Krieger Stephen & Gazzaley Adam - forthcoming - Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
    Passive frame theory attempts to illuminate what consciousness is, in mechanistic and functional terms; it does not address the “implementation” level of analysis (how neurons instantiate conscious states), an enigma for various disciplines. However, in response to the commentaries, we discuss how our framework provides clues regarding this enigma. In the framework, consciousness is passive albeit essential. Without consciousness, there would not be adaptive skeletomotor action.
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  • Place and the self: An autobiographical memory synthesis.Igor Knez - 2014 - Philosophical Psychology 27 (2):164-192.
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  • Moral Learning: Conceptual foundations and normative relevance.Peter Railton - 2017 - Cognition 167 (C):172-190.
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  • The False Dichotomy between Causal Realization and Semantic Computation.Marcin Miłkowski - 2017 - Hybris. Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny 38:1-21.
    In this paper, I show how semantic factors constrain the understanding of the computational phenomena to be explained so that they help build better mechanistic models. In particular, understanding what cognitive systems may refer to is important in building better models of cognitive processes. For that purpose, a recent study of some phenomena in rats that are capable of ‘entertaining’ future paths (Pfeiffer and Foster 2013) is analyzed. The case shows that the mechanistic account of physical computation may be complemented (...)
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  • Free Will and Epistemology: a Defence of the Transcendental Argument for Freedom.Robert Lockie - 2018 - London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
    This is a work concerned with justification and freedom and the relationship between these. Its summational aim is to defend a transcendental argument for free will – that we could not be epistemically justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will would be required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified. The book advances two transcendental arguments – for a deontically internalist conception of epistemic justification and the aforementioned (...)
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  • A Pure Representationalist Account of Belief and Desire.Steve Pearce - 2016 - Dissertation, University of Western Ontario
    According to the traditional view, beliefs and desires are mental representations that play particular functional roles. A belief that P is state which represents P and plays the belief-role, while a desire that P is a state which represents that P and plays the desire-role. In this dissertation I argue that the traditional view has trouble accounting for (a) role that belief and desire play in the causal and rational explanation of behaviour and (b) our knowledge of our own conscious, (...)
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  • An “ecological” action-based synthesis.Jonathan de Vries & Lawrence M. Ward - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39.
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  • Passive frame theory: A new synthesis.Ezequiel Morsella, Christine A. Godwin, Tiffany K. Jantz, Stephen C. Krieger & Adam Gazzaley - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39:e199.
    Passive frame theory attempts to illuminate what consciousnessis, in mechanistic and functional terms; it does not address the “implementation” level of analysis (how neurons instantiate conscious states), an enigma for various disciplines. However, in response to the commentaries, we discuss how our framework provides clues regarding this enigma. In the framework, consciousness is passive albeit essential. Without consciousness, there would not be adaptive skeletomotor action.
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  • Is phenomenal force sufficient for immediate perceptual justification?Lu Teng - 2018 - Synthese 195 (2):637-656.
    As an important view in the epistemology of perception, dogmatism proposes that for any experience, if it has a distinctive kind of phenomenal character, then it thereby provides us with immediate justification for beliefs about the external world. This paper rejects dogmatism by looking into the epistemology of imagining. In particular, this paper first appeals to some empirical studies on perceptual experiences and imaginings to show that it is possible for imaginings to have the distinctive phenomenal character dogmatists have in (...)
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  • Are All Spatial Reference Frames Egocentric? Reinterpreting Evidence for Allocentric, Object-Centered, or World-Centered Reference Frames.Flavia Filimon - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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  • Solving the detour problem in navigation: a model of prefrontal and hippocampal interactions.Hugo J. Spiers & Sam J. Gilbert - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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  • Cues, context, and long-term memory: the role of the retrosplenial cortex in spatial cognition.Adam M. P. Miller, Lindsey C. Vedder, L. Matthew Law & David M. Smith - 2014 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8.
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  • The hippocampus and spatial constraints on mental imagery.Chris M. Bird, James A. Bisby & Neil Burgess - 2012 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6.
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  • Goal-directed decision making as probabilistic inference: A computational framework and potential neural correlates.Alec Solway & Matthew M. Botvinick - 2012 - Psychological Review 119 (1):120-154.
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  • Dream to Predict? REM Dreaming as Prospective Coding.Sue Llewellyn - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning.Michael Waldmann (ed.) - 2017 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect relations. Without our ability to discover and empirically test causal theories, we would not have made progress in various empirical sciences. In the past decades, the important role of causal knowledge has been discovered in many areas of cognitive (...)
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  • Homing in on consciousness in the nervous system: An action-based synthesis.Ezequiel Morsella, Christine A. Godwin, Tiffany K. Jantz, Stephen C. Krieger & Adam Gazzaley - 2016 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39:1-70.
    What is the primary function of consciousness in the nervous system? The answer to this question remains enigmatic, not so much because of a lack of relevant data, but because of the lack of a conceptual framework with which to interpret the data. To this end, we have developed Passive Frame Theory, an internally coherent framework that, from an action-based perspective, synthesizes empirically supported hypotheses from diverse fields of investigation. The theory proposes that the primary function of consciousness is well-circumscribed, (...)
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  • Satisfaction conditions in anticipatory mechanisms.Marcin Miłkowski - 2015 - Biology and Philosophy 30 (5):709-728.
    The purpose of this paper is to present a general mechanistic framework for analyzing causal representational claims, and offer a way to distinguish genuinely representational explanations from those that invoke representations for honorific purposes. It is usually agreed that rats are capable of navigation because they maintain a cognitive map of their environment. Exactly how and why their neural states give rise to mental representations is a matter of an ongoing debate. I will show that anticipatory mechanisms involved in rats’ (...)
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  • Must cognition be representational?William Ramsey - 2017 - Synthese 194 (11):4197-4214.
    In various contexts and for various reasons, writers often define cognitive processes and architectures as those involving representational states and structures. Similarly, cognitive theories are also often delineated as those that invoke representations. In this paper, I present several reasons for rejecting this way of demarcating the cognitive. Some of the reasons against defining cognition in representational terms are that doing so needlessly restricts our theorizing, it undermines the empirical status of the representational theory of mind, and it encourages wildly (...)
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  • Investigating neural representations: the tale of place cells.William Bechtel - 2016 - Synthese 193 (5):1287-1321.
    While neuroscientists often characterize brain activity as representational, many philosophers have construed these accounts as just theorists’ glosses on the mechanism. Moreover, philosophical discussions commonly focus on finished accounts of explanation, not research in progress. I adopt a different perspective, considering how characterizations of neural activity as representational contributes to the development of mechanistic accounts, guiding the investigations neuroscientists pursue as they work from an initial proposal to a more detailed understanding of a mechanism. I develop one illustrative example involving (...)
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  • SA w_ S _u: An Integrated Model of Associative and Reinforcement Learning.Vladislav D. Veksler, Christopher W. Myers & Kevin A. Gluck - 2014 - Cognitive Science 38 (3):580-598.
    Successfully explaining and replicating the complexity and generality of human and animal learning will require the integration of a variety of learning mechanisms. Here, we introduce a computational model which integrates associative learning (AL) and reinforcement learning (RL). We contrast the integrated model with standalone AL and RL models in three simulation studies. First, a synthetic grid‐navigation task is employed to highlight performance advantages for the integrated model in an environment where the reward structure is both diverse and dynamic. The (...)
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  • The Earth is flat when personally significant experiences with the sphericity of the Earth are absent.Claus-Christian Carbon - 2010 - Cognition 116 (1):130-135.
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  • Learning your way around town: How virtual taxicab drivers learn to use both layout and landmark information.Ehren L. Newman, Jeremy B. Caplan, Matthew P. Kirschen, Igor O. Korolev, Robert Sekuler & Michael J. Kahana - 2007 - Cognition 104 (2):231-253.
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  • Upward direction, mental rotation, and discrimination of left and right turns in maps.Roger N. Shepard & Shelley Hurwitz - 1984 - Cognition 18 (1-3):161-193.
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  • On panspatial theories of brain and behavior.Ernest Greene - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):503-503.
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  • Considerations in evaluating the cognitive mapping theory of hippocampal function.Leonard E. Jarrard - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):509-509.
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  • The cognitive map as a hippocampus.John O'Keefe & Lynn Nadel - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):520-533.
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  • Mental maps, mental images, and intuitions about space.Steven Pinker - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):512-512.
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  • Cognition, memory, and the hippocampus.Garth J. Thomas - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):515-517.
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  • “Model systems” versus “neuroethological” approach to hippocampal function.Richard F. Thompson, Paul R. Solomon & Donald J. Weisz - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):517-518.
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  • Cognitive maps: dimensionality and development.J. Jacques Vonèche - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):519-520.
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  • Précis of O'Keefe & Nadel's The hippocampus as a cognitive map.John O'Keefe & Lynn Nadel - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):487-494.
    Theories of spatial cognition are derived from many sources. Psychologists are concerned with determining the features of the mind which, in combination with external inputs, produce our spatialized experience. A review of philosophical and other approaches has convinced us that the brain must come equipped to impose a three-dimensional Euclidean framework on experience – our analysis suggests that object re-identification may require such a framework. We identify this absolute, nonegocentric, spatial framework with a specific neural system centered in the hippocampus.A (...)
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  • The logic of representation.William W. Rozeboom - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):385-386.
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  • Metatheory of animal behavior.Erwin M. Segal - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):386-387.
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  • Historicism, behaviorism, and the conceptual status of memory representations in animals.Charles P. Shimp - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):389-390.
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  • Antimisrepresentationalism.A. Charles Catania - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):374-375.
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  • Memory: A matter of fitness.Juan D. Delius - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):375-376.
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  • Some distinctions among representations.M. Gopnik - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):378-379.
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  • Comparative cognition revisited.Stewart H. Hulse - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):379-379.
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  • The meaning of representation in animal memory.H. L. Roitblat - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):353-372.
    A representation is a remnant of previous experience that allows that experience to affect later behavior. This paper develops a metatheoretical view of representation and applies it to issues concerning representation in animals. To describe a representational system one must specify the following: thedomainor range of situations in the represented world to which the system applies; thecontentor set of features encoded and preserved by the system; thecodeor transformational rules relating features of the representation to the corresponding features of the represented (...)
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  • Some limited neural and behavioral comparisons of the superior colliculus and the hippocampus.Walter Isaac - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):125-125.
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  • The value of modeling visual attention.Gary W. Strong & Bruce A. Whitehead - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):419-433.
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  • State transitions in constraint satisfaction networks.John K. Kruschke - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):407-408.
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  • A self-organizing perceptual system.James R. Levenick - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):409-410.
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  • Simultaneous processing of features may not be possible.D. M. Parker - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):411-411.
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  • Modeling separate processing pathways for spatial and object vision.Bruce Bridgeman - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):398-398.
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  • Affordance perception and the Y-magnocellular pathway.Chris Fields - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):403-404.
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  • A solution to the tag-assignment problem for neural networks.Gary W. Strong & Bruce A. Whitehead - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):381-397.
    Purely parallel neural networks can model object recognition in brief displays – the same conditions under which illusory conjunctions have been demonstrated empirically. Correcting errors of illusory conjunction is the “tag-assignment” problem for a purely parallel processor: the problem of assigning a spatial tag to nonspatial features, feature combinations, and objects. This problem must be solved to model human object recognition over a longer time scale. Our model simulates both the parallel processes that may underlie illusory conjunctions and the serial (...)
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  • Is behaviorism vacuous?Stephen P. Stich - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):647.
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  • Models, yes; homunculus, no.Frederick M. Toates - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):650.
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