Brain regions as difference-makers

Colin Klein*

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    Abstract

    Contrastive neuroimaging is often taken to provide evidence about the localization of cognitive functions. After canvassing some problems with this approach, I offer an alternative: neuroimaging gives evidence about regions of the brain that bear difference-making relationships to psychological processes of interest. I distinguish between the specificity and what I call the systematicity of a difference-making relationship, and I show how at least some neuroimaging experiments can give evidence for systematic difference-making.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-20
    Number of pages20
    JournalPhilosophical Psychology
    Volume30
    Issue number1-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Keywords

    • causation
    • difference-making
    • fMRI
    • neuroimaging
    • neuroscience

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