Abstract
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind. Two of its constituent disciplines are cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Each of these can provide partial explanations of how people are able to perform certain tasks. The explanations from cognitive psychology are hypotheses about mental-information-processing programs. The explanations from cognitive neuroscience are hypotheses about the nature of the neural hardware on which these programs run. At present it is quite unclear whether findings in either of these domains can constrain hypotheses in the other; I argue that there are so far no examples of this actually having happened.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ASCS09 |
| Subtitle of host publication | proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science |
| Editors | Wayne Christensen, Elizabeth Schier, John Sutton |
| Place of Publication | North Ryde, NSW |
| Publisher | Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science |
| Pages | 57-60 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780646529189 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009) - Sydney Duration: 30 Sept 2009 → 2 Oct 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009) |
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| City | Sydney |
| Period | 30/09/09 → 2/10/09 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright 2009 by the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, ASCS09 : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.Keywords
- brain imaging
- mind
- cognitive psychology
- cognitive science
- cognitive neuroscience
- levels of explanation