Psychoneural reduction: a perspective from neural circuits
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Parker, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5345-348X
Abstract
Psychoneural reduction has been debated extensively in the philosophy of neuroscience. In this article I will evaluate metascientific approaches that claim direct molecular and cellular explanations of cognitive functions. I will initially consider the issues involved in linking cellular properties to behaviour from the general perspective of neural circuits. These circuits that integrate the molecular and cellular components underlying cognition and behaviour, making consideration of circuit properties relevant to reductionist debates. I will then apply this general perspective to specific systems where psychoneural reduction has been claimed, namely hippocampal long-term potentiation and the Aplysia gill-withdrawal reflex.
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Psychoneural reduction, Memory, Neural network, Neural circuit, Behaviour
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Biology and Philosophy
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0169-3867
1572-8404
1572-8404
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34
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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