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Is Cognitive Neuropsychology Possible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Jeffrey Bub
Jeffrey Bub*
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University of Maryland
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The aim of contemporary cognitive neuropsychology is to articulate the functional architecture underlying normal human cognitive abilities, on the basis of patterns of performance over a variety of cognitive tasks involving subjects with varying degrees of brain-damage. An example of a contemporary functional architecture is the following model for the recognition and production of spoken and written words:

The modular processing components in this ‘box-and-arrow’ functional architecture represent functionally independent subsystems that perform computational transformations on the representations that originate as input along the connecting links, providing a theory of cognition at the algorithmic and representational level (not the implementational or ‘hardware’ level).

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Part XI. Philosophy of Psychology and Perception
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1994 , Issue 1: Volume One: Contributed Papers 1994 , 1994 , pp. 416 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants SBE-9012399 and SBE-9122696. I want to thank Clark Glymour and Dan Bub for helpful discussions.

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