On the Methods of Cognitive Neuropsychology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8399358
AutoresClark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas815-835
Fecha de publicación1994-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjps/45.3.815
OpenAlexW2157929995
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas6

Contemporary cognitive neuropsychology attempts to infer unobserved features of normal human cognition, or ‘cognitive architecture’, from experiments with normals and with brain-damaged subjects in whom certain normal cognitive capacities are altered, diminished, or absent. Fundamental methodological issues about the enterprise of cognitive neuropsychology concern the characterization of methods by which features of normal cognitive architecture can be identified from such data, the assumptions upon which the reliability of such methods are premised, and the limits of such methods—even granting their assumptions—in resolving uncertainties about that architecture. With some idealization, the question of the capacities of various experimental designs in cognitive neuropsychology to uncover cognitive architecture can be reduced to comparatively simple questions about the prior assumptions investigators are willing to make. This paper presents some of simplest of those reductions.

Cognition · Cognitive architecture · Cognitive neuropsychology · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Idealization · LIDA · Neuropsychology · Architecture · Cognitive Science and Mapping · Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology