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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