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Not Every Thing Must Go.

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Boone, T; Van Rooy, N; De Brigard, F
Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience
March 2023

In The Entangled Brain, Pessoa criticizes standard approaches in cognitive neuroscience in which the brain is seen as a functionally decomposable, modular system with causal operations built up hierarchically. Instead, he advocates for an emergentist perspective whereby dynamic brain networks are associated, not with traditional psychological categories, but with behavioral functions characterized in evolutionary terms. Here, we raise a number of concerns with such a radical approach. We ultimately believe that although much revision to cognitive neuroscience is welcome and needed, Pessoa's more radical proposals may be counterproductive.

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Published In

Journal of cognitive neuroscience

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EISSN

1530-8898

ISSN

0898-929X

Publication Date

March 2023

Volume

35

Issue

3

Start / End Page

376 / 379

Related Subject Headings

  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Brain
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Boone, T., Van Rooy, N., & De Brigard, F. (2023). Not Every Thing Must Go. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(3), 376–379. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01931
Boone, Trey, Nina Van Rooy, and Felipe De Brigard. “Not Every Thing Must Go.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 35, no. 3 (March 2023): 376–79. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01931.
Boone T, Van Rooy N, De Brigard F. Not Every Thing Must Go. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2023 Mar;35(3):376–9.
Boone, Trey, et al. “Not Every Thing Must Go.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 35, no. 3, Mar. 2023, pp. 376–79. Epmc, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01931.
Boone T, Van Rooy N, De Brigard F. Not Every Thing Must Go. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2023 Mar;35(3):376–379.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of cognitive neuroscience

DOI

EISSN

1530-8898

ISSN

0898-929X

Publication Date

March 2023

Volume

35

Issue

3

Start / End Page

376 / 379

Related Subject Headings

  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognition
  • Brain
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 3209 Neurosciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology