Please circulate. Tuesday 24 April, 4pm, Macquarie University Palermo Room, C5C 498, Department of Cognitive Science. All welcome. Contact: John Sutton, [email protected] Seminar series: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/news/seminars/
The Endogenously Active Brain: The Need for an Alternative Cognitive Architecture William Bechtel (http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/) Department of Philosophy, Center for Chronobiology, and Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego Most accounts of brain processes in neuroscience and proposals for cognitive architectures in cognitive science construe the mind/brain as reactive: processing is initiated in response to a stimulus. But there is growing evidence that brains are endogenously active: oscillations in electrochemical activity at multiple frequencies are ongoing in the brain even in the absence of stimuli and stimuli serve to modulate these oscillations rather than initiate activity. Moreover, this endogenous activity is used in various information processing activities. I appeal to evidence from EEG, LFPs, and resting state fMRI to support the claim of ongoing oscillatory behavior in the brain and identify several ways it contributes to cognition. Modeling neural activity requires a cognitive architecture that both reflects the organization of the brain and the dynamic activity exhibit by the brain. -- Professor John Sutton Department of Cognitive Science (http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/) Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.johnsutton.net/ Memory Studies journal: http://mss.sagepub.com/ _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list: http://bit.ly/sydphil 1000+ subscribers now served!! To UNSUBSCRIBE, change your MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS, find ANSWERS TO COMMON PROBLEMS, or visit our ONLINE ARCHIVES, please go to the LIST INFORMATION PAGE: http://bit.ly/sydphil
