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Has the brain evolved to answer “binding questions” or to generate likely hypotheses about complex and continuously changing environments?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2006

Birgitta Dresp  and
Jean Charles Barthaud
Birgitta Dresp
Affiliation:
CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, FranceBirgitta.Dresp@univ-lyon2.fr
Jean Charles Barthaud
Affiliation:
Laboratoire “Etudes des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC),” Université de Lyon 2, Campus Porte des Alpes, 69676 Bron Cedex, Francejean-charles.barthaud@univ-lyon2.fr
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Abstract

We question the ecological plausibility as a general model of cognition of van der Velde's & de Kamps's combinatorial blackboard architecture, where knowledge-binding in space and time relies on the structural rules of language. Evidence against their view of the brain and an ecologically plausible, alternative model of cognition are brought forward.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 75 - 76
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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