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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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  • Cartographic systems and non-linguistic inference.Mariela Aguilera - 2016 - Philosophical Psychology 29 (3):349-364.
    It is often assumed that the capability to make inferences requires language. Against this assumption, I claim that inferential abilities do not necessarily require a language. On the contrary, certain cartographic systems could be used to explain some forms of inferences, and they are capable of warranting rational relations between contents they represent. By arguing that certain maps, as well as sentences, are adequate for inferential processes, I do not mean to neglect that there are important differences between maps and (...)
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  • The language of thought hypothesis.Murat Aydede - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    A comprehensive introduction to the Language of Though Hypothesis (LOTH) accessible to general audiences. LOTH is an empirical thesis about thought and thinking. For their explication, it postulates a physically realized system of representations that have a combinatorial syntax (and semantics) such that operations on representations are causally sensitive only to the syntactic properties of representations. According to LOTH, thought is, roughly, the tokening of a representation that has a syntactic (constituent) structure with an appropriate semantics. Thinking thus consists in (...)
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  • Animal Behavior.Stephen J. Crowley & Colin Allen - 2008 - In Michael Ruse (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 327--348.
    Few areas of scientific investigation have spawned more alternative approaches than animal behavior: comparative psychology, ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behavioral endocrinology, behavioral neuroscience, neuroethology, behavioral genetics, cognitive ethology, developmental psychobiology---the list goes on. Add in the behavioral sciences focused on the human animal, and you can continue the list with ethnography, biological anthropology, political science, sociology, psychology (cognitive, social, developmental, evolutionary, etc.), and even that dismal science, economics. Clearly, no reasonable-length chapter can do justice to such a varied collection. We (...)
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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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  • Response to spatial and nonspatial change in wild (WWCPS) and Wistar rats.Wojciech Pisula, Klaudia Modlińska & Rafał Stryjek - 2012 - Polish Psychological Bulletin 43 (2):124-131.
    Response to spatial and nonspatial change in wild and Wistar rats The purpose of the experiment was to investigate the effects of domestication on exploration in rats. The comparison was made between wild Warsaw-Wild-Captive-Pisula-Stryjek rats and Wistar laboratory rats. The study used a purpose-built maze divided into zones connected with a corridor. Objects were placed in two out of four zones. Their location and shape were subject to experimental manipulation. Transporter used to move rats to the maze provided the opportunity (...)
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  • The Fallacy of the Homuncular Fallacy.Carrie Figdor - 2018 - Belgrade Philosophical Annual 31 (31):41-56.
    A leading theoretical framework for naturalistic explanation of mind holds that we explain the mind by positing progressively "stupider" capacities ("homunculi") until the mind is "discharged" by means of capacities that are not intelligent at all. The so-called homuncular fallacy involves violating this procedure by positing the same capacities at subpersonal levels. I argue that the homuncular fallacy is not a fallacy, and that modern-day homunculi are idle posits. I propose an alternative view of what naturalism requires that reflects how (...)
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  • Picturing, signifying, and attending.Bryce Huebner - 2018 - Belgrade Philosophical Annual 1 (31):7-40.
    In this paper, I develop an empirically-driven approach to the relationship between conceptual and non-conceptual representations. I begin by clarifying Wilfrid Sellars's distinction between a non-conceptual capacity to picture significant aspects of our world, and a capacity to stabilize semantic content in the form of conceptual representations that signify those aspects of the world that are relevant to our shared practices. I argue that this distinction helps to clarify the reason why cognition must be understood as embodied and situated. Drawing (...)
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  • A unified framework for addiction: Vulnerabilities in the decision process.Adam Johnson A. David Redish, Steve Jensen - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (4):415.
    The understanding of decision-making systems has come together in recent years to form a unified theory of decision-making in the mammalian brain as arising from multiple, interacting systems (a planning system, a habit system, and a situation-recognition system). This unified decision-making system has multiple potential access points through which it can be driven to make maladaptive choices, particularly choices that entail seeking of certain drugs or behaviors. We identify 10 key vulnerabilities in the system: (1) moving away from homeostasis, (2) (...)
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  • Concept Learning: A Geometrical Model.Gärdenfors Peter - 2001 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101 (1):163-183.
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  • Encoding Longer-Term Contextual Information with Predictive Coding and Ego-Motion.Junpei Zhong, Angelo Cangelosi, Tetsuya Ogata & Xinzheng Zhang - 2018 - Complexity 2018:1-15.
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  • Spatial updating according to a fixed reference direction of a briefly viewed layout.Hui Zhang, Weimin Mou & Timothy P. McNamara - 2011 - Cognition 119 (3):419-429.
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  • The heuristic value of representation.Thomas R. Zentall - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):393-394.
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  • In support of cognitive theories.Thomas R. Zentall - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):654.
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  • Naive geography and geopolitical semiotics: The semiotic analysis of geomental maps of Russians.Natalya Zelyanskaya, Konstantin Belousov & Dilara Ichkineeva - 2017 - Semiotica 2017 (215):235-253.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2017 Heft: 215 Seiten: 235-253.
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  • Attention to detail?Malcolm P. Young, Ian R. Paterson & David I. Perrett - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):417-418.
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  • Towards a computational theory of cognitive maps.Wai K. Yeap - 1988 - Artificial Intelligence 34 (3):297-360.
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  • How Albot0 Finds Its Way Home: A Novel Approach to Cognitive Mapping Using Robots.Wai K. Yeap - 2011 - Topics in Cognitive Science 3 (4):707-721.
    Much of what we know about cognitive mapping comes from observing how biological agents behave in their physical environments, and several of these ideas were implemented on robots, imitating such a process. In this paper a novel approach to cognitive mapping is presented whereby robots are treated as a species of their own and their cognitive mapping is being investigated. Such robots are referred to as Albots. The design of the first Albot, Albot0, is presented. Albot0 computes an imprecise map (...)
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  • Non-spatial similarity can bias spatial distances in a cognitive map.Xing Xing & Jeffrey A. Saunders - 2022 - Cognition 229 (C):105251.
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  • The return of the reinforcement theorists.C. D. L. Wynne - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (1):156-156.
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  • Is “Behaviorism at fifty” twenty years older?Everett J. Wyers - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):653.
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  • Operant conditioning and behavioral neuroscience.Michael L. Woodruff - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):652.
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  • Where's the psychological reality?C. Philip Winder - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):417-417.
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  • The hippocampus and attention.Gordon Winocur - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):132-133.
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  • The heterogeneity and plasticity of cerebral structures.Bruno E. Will, John C. Dalrymple-Alford & Georges Di Scala - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):131-132.
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  • Reasoning, robots, and navigation: Dual roles for deductive and abductive reasoning.Janet Wiles - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (2):92-92.
    Mercier & Sperber (M&S) argue for their argumentative theory in terms of communicative abilities. Insights can be gained by extending the discussion beyond human reasoning to rodent and robot navigation. The selection of arguments and conclusions that are mutually reinforcing can be cast as a form of abductive reasoning that I argue underlies the construction of cognitive maps in navigation tasks.
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  • Mind the brain.Martha Wilson - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):393-393.
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  • Breaking the language barrier: conceptual representation without a language-like format.Iwan Williams - forthcoming - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
    An important part of the explanatory role of concepts is that they enable us to combine a wide variety of objects, properties and relations in thought, with contents spanning diverse domains. I discuss an argument that appears to show that paradigmatic non-linguistic representational formats are unsuited to play this role, and thus conceptual representation could not occur in these formats. I show that this argument fails, because it overlooks the possibility of individual concepts being shared between a number of special (...)
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  • A mathematical theory of reinforcement: An unexpected place to find support for analogical memory coding.Donald M. Wilkie & Lisa M. Saksida - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (1):155-156.
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  • What basic emotions really are: modularity, motivation, and behavioral variability.Isaac Wiegman - 2021 - Biology and Philosophy 36 (5):1-28.
    While there is ongoing debate about the existence of basic emotions and about their status as natural kinds, these debates usually carry on under the assumption that basic emotions are modular and therefore cannot account for behavioral variability in emotional situations. Moreover, both sides of the debate have assumed that these putative features of basic emotions distinguish them as products of evolution rather than products of culture and experience. I argue that these assumptions are unwarranted, that there is empirical evidence (...)
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  • Human navigation in curved spaces.Christopher Widdowson & Ranxiao Frances Wang - 2022 - Cognition 218 (C):104923.
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  • The development of concepts of the mental world.Henry M. Wellman - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):651.
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  • Thought without language: Thought without awareness?Lawrence Weiskrantz - 1997 - In Thought and Language. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 127-.
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  • Thought without Language: Thought without Awareness?L. Weiskrantz - 1997 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 42:127-150.
    Some philosophers have laid down rather severe strictures on whether there can be thought without language. Wittgenstein asserted that ‘the limits of language…mean the limits of my world’. Davidson has argued that ‘a creature cannot have thoughts unless it is an interpreter of the speech of another’. Dummett has interpreted some pronouncements as meaning that ‘the study of thought is to be sharply distinguished from the study of the psychological processes of thinking and…the only proper method of analysing thought consists (...)
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  • Fifty years on: The new “principles of behavior”?J. H. Wearden - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (1):155-155.
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  • Wormholes in virtual space: From cognitive maps to cognitive graphs.William H. Warren, Daniel B. Rothman, Benjamin H. Schnapp & Jonathan D. Ericson - 2017 - Cognition 166 (C):152-163.
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  • Updating egocentric representations in human navigation.Ranxiao Frances Wang & Elizabeth S. Spelke - 2000 - Cognition 77 (3):215-250.
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  • Monkeys are curious about counterfactual outcomes.Maya Zhe Wang & Benjamin Y. Hayden - 2019 - Cognition 189 (C):1-10.
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  • Not “pain and behavior” but pain in behavior.Patrick D. Wall - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):73-73.
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  • How general is a general theory of reinforcement?Stephen F. Walker - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (1):154-155.
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  • A brief history of connectionism and its psychological implications.S. F. Walker - 1990 - AI and Society 4 (1):17-38.
    Critics of the computational connectionism of the last decade suggest that it shares undesirable features with earlier empiricist or associationist approaches, and with behaviourist theories of learning. To assess the accuracy of this charge the works of earlier writers are examined for the presence of such features, and brief accounts of those found are given for Herbert Spencer, William James and the learning theorists Thorndike, Pavlov and Hull. The idea that cognition depends on associative connections among large networks of neurons (...)
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  • Is extension to perception of real-world objects and scenes possible?J. Wagemans, K. Verfaillie, P. De Graef & K. Lamberts - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3):415-417.
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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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  • Action Selection and Execution in Everyday Activities: A Cognitive Robotics and Situation Model Perspective.David Vernon, Josefine Albert, Michael Beetz, Shiau-Chuen Chiou, Helge Ritter & Werner X. Schneider - 2022 - Topics in Cognitive Science 14 (2):344-362.
    Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 344-362, April 2022.
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  • Goal‐Proximity Decision‐Making.Vladislav D. Veksler, Wayne D. Gray & Michael J. Schoelles - 2013 - Cognitive Science 37 (4):757-774.
    Reinforcement learning (RL) models of decision-making cannot account for human decisions in the absence of prior reward or punishment. We propose a mechanism for choosing among available options based on goal-option association strengths, where association strengths between objects represent previously experienced object proximity. The proposed mechanism, Goal-Proximity Decision-making (GPD), is implemented within the ACT-R cognitive framework. GPD is found to be more efficient than RL in three maze-navigation simulations. GPD advantages over RL seem to grow as task difficulty is increased. (...)
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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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  • Is hippocampal rhythmical slow activity specifically related to movement through space?C. M. Vanderwolf - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):518-519.
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  • Animal navigation without mental representation.Bas van Woerkum - forthcoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences:1-18.
    Do animals require rich internal representations, such as cognitive maps, to navigate complex environments? Some researchers believe so, as they argue that sensory information is “too poor” to account for animals’ wayfinding abilities. However, this assumption is debatable, as James J. Gibson showed. Gibson proposed that wayfinding involves detecting information about environmental structure over time and used the concepts of “vistas” and “transitions” to explain terrestrial navigation. While these concepts may not apply universally to animal navigation, they highlight the importance (...)
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  • Internal representations and indeterminacy: A skeptical view.William R. Uttal - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):392-393.
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