Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience?
The significance of neuroscientific findings for the analysis of central problems in cognitive science has long been a matter of debate. Recent developments in cognitive neuroscience have reignited this discussion, especially with regard to the study of cognitive representations and cognitive proces...
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| description | The significance of neuroscientific findings for the analysis of central problems in cognitive science has long been a matter of debate. Recent developments in cognitive neuroscience have reignited this discussion, especially with regard to the study of cognitive representations and cognitive processes. The present paper focuses on multivariate analyses, a class of neuroscientific methods that promises to shed new light on the neural bases of cognitive representations. Multivariate approaches are both powerful and increasingly used. Yet, we argue that their successful application in neuroscience requires significant theoretical and methodological clarification. After providing a preliminary assessment of the pros and cons of multivariate methods, we claim that their successful application crucially depends on how we conceptualize the relationships between representations, cognitive processes, and neural data, in other words, on the cognitive ontology we use to describe the human mind. Our discussion also highlights some general strengths and weaknesses of neuroscientific contributions to the program of classical cognitive science. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-20fe5a86e8d142e2aa01ee1a55a3815e2023-01-04T12:21:18ZdeuMimesis Edizioni, MilanoRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia2039-46672239-26292022-12-0113318719910.4453/rifp.2022.0018Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience?Davide CoraciThe significance of neuroscientific findings for the analysis of central problems in cognitive science has long been a matter of debate. Recent developments in cognitive neuroscience have reignited this discussion, especially with regard to the study of cognitive representations and cognitive processes. The present paper focuses on multivariate analyses, a class of neuroscientific methods that promises to shed new light on the neural bases of cognitive representations. Multivariate approaches are both powerful and increasingly used. Yet, we argue that their successful application in neuroscience requires significant theoretical and methodological clarification. After providing a preliminary assessment of the pros and cons of multivariate methods, we claim that their successful application crucially depends on how we conceptualize the relationships between representations, cognitive processes, and neural data, in other words, on the cognitive ontology we use to describe the human mind. Our discussion also highlights some general strengths and weaknesses of neuroscientific contributions to the program of classical cognitive science.https://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2022.0018cognitive processfmrimultivariate analysismarr's three levels of analysiscognitive ontology |
| spellingShingle | Davide Coraci Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience? Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia cognitive process fmri multivariate analysis marr's three levels of analysis cognitive ontology |
| title | Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience? |
| title_full | Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience? |
| title_fullStr | Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience? |
| title_short | Representations and processes: What role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience? |
| title_sort | representations and processes what role for multivariate methods in cognitive neuroscience |
| topic | cognitive process fmri multivariate analysis marr's three levels of analysis cognitive ontology |
| url | https://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2022.0018 |
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