Evolving Concepts of Functional Localization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4977369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph B Mccaffrey (0000-0001-6210-0152, University of Nebraska at Omaha, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12914 |
| OpenAlex | W4379741854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 116 |
Functional localization is a central aim of cognitive neuroscience. But the nature and extent of functional localization in the human brain have been subjects of fierce theoretical debate since the 19thCentury. In this essay, I first examine how concepts of functional localization have changed over time. I then analyze contemporary challenges to functional localization drawing from research on neural reuse, neural degeneracy, and the context-dependence of neural functions. I explore the consequences of these challenges for topics in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind including localizationist versus anti-localizationist approaches to cognitive neuroscience, multiple realizability, reverse inference in functional neuroimaging, and the modularity of mind
Biology · Cognition · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Functional connectivity · Functional magnetic resonance imaging · Functional neuroimaging · Inference · Modularity (biology · Neuroimaging · Cognitive Neuroscience · Computer Science · Face Recognition and Perception · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
The Entangled Brain
Discovering Complexity
After Phrenology
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection
Neural reuse
The Fusiform Face Area
Mechanisms and natural kinds
Functional Analysis
Loss of Recent Memory After Bilateral Hippocampal Lesions
Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data?
Psychological Predicates
Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
The fusiform face area
Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex
The brain basis of emotion
Degeneracy and complexity in biological systems
The Modularity of Mind
Cognition as the sensitive management of an agent’s behavior
The notorious neurophilosophy of pain
Is memory a natural kind
Goltz against cerebral localization
The life of the cortical column
Beyond the Platonic Brain
Beyond cognitive myopia
Special sciences (or
Computational neuroscience and localized neural function
The death of the cortical column? Patchwork structure and conceptual retirement in neuroscientific practice
Neuroscience and the Multiple Realization of Cognitive Functions
Cognitive Ontology and Region- versus Network-Oriented Analyses
Exploratory Concept Formation and Tool Development in Neuroscience
Functions as Selected Effects
Multiple Realizability Revisited
Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences
The Brain’s Heterogeneous Functional Landscape
Role Functions, Mechanisms, and Hierarchy
Localization and Intrinsic Function
Cognitive Recycling
In Defense of Reverse Inference
Getting over Atomism
Cognitive Variation
Categorizing the Mental
Mining the Brain for a New Taxonomy of the Mind
Experimental Philosophy of Science
The Future of Cognitive Neuroscience? Reverse Inference in Focus
The Functions of the Brain
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 2.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |