Brain Inspired

BI 025 John Krakauer: Understanding Cognition


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  • BLAM (Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement) Lab homepage: http://blam-lab.org/
  • BLAM on Twitter: @blamlab
  • Papers we discuss:
    • Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias.
    • John and his brother David’s interview in Current Biology: John and David Krakauer
    • Mark Humphries’ piece on John’s “Neuroscience Needs Behavior” paper.
    • Tinbergen’s 4 Questions.
    • John’s book on stroke recovery: Broken Movement: The Neurobiology of Motor Recovery after Stroke (The MIT Press).
    • David Marr’s classic work, Vision.
    • More is Different by Phillip Anderson, and the hierarchical nature of scientific disciplines.
    • Understanding Scientific Understanding by Henk W. De Regt.
    • Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasock Chang.
    • Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey.
    • The Organisation of Mind by Tim Shallice and Richard Cooper.
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