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Understanding brain circuits and their dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Antoni Gomila  and
Paco Calvo
Antoni Gomila
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands, 070XX Palma, Spain. [email protected]
Paco Calvo
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Murcia, 30003 Murcia, Spain. [email protected]
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Abstract

We argue that Anderson's “massive redeployment hypothesis” (MRH) needs further development in several directions. First, a thoroughgoing criticism of the several “embodied cognition” alternatives is required. Second, the course between the Scylla of full holism and the Charybdis of structural-functional modularism must be plotted more distinctly. Third, methodologies better suited to reveal brain circuits must be brought in. Finally, the constraints that naturalistic settings provide should be considered.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 274 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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