Brain regions as difference-makers |
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Authors: | Colin Klein |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | Contrastive neuroimaging is often taken to provide evidence about the localization of cognitive functions. After canvassing some problems with this approach, I offer an alternative: neuroimaging gives evidence about regions of the brain that bear difference-making relationships to psychological processes of interest. I distinguish between the specificity and what I call the systematicity of a difference-making relationship, and I show how at least some neuroimaging experiments can give evidence for systematic difference-making. |
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Keywords: | Causation difference-making fMRI neuroimaging neuroscience |
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