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15Reuse of identified neurons in multiple neural circuitsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (4): 285. 2010.The growing recognition by cognitive neuroscientists that areas of vertebrate brains may be reused for multiple purposes either functionally during development or during evolution echoes a similar realization made by neuroscientists working on invertebrates. Because of these animals' relatively more accessible nervous systems, neuronal reuse can be examined at the level of individual identified neurons and fully characterized neural circuits
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14Conceptual discontinuity involves recycling old processes in new domainsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (3): 136-137. 2011.
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22Predictive validity of the N2 and P3 ERP components to executive functioning in children: a latent-variable analysisFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 8. 2014.
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20The status of machine ethics: A report from the AAAI symposium (review)Minds and Machines 17 (1): 1-10. 2007.This paper is a summary and evaluation of work presented at the AAAI 2005 Fall Symposium on Machine Ethics that brought together participants from the fields of Computer Science and Philosophy to the end of clarifying the nature of this newly emerging field and discussing different approaches one could take towards realizing the ultimate goal of creating an ethical machine
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22What we need is better theory, not more dataBehavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (2): 125-126. 2006.Although I find Blair's case for arguing for the distinction between fluid cognitive functions and general intelligence less than compelling, I believe him. However, I also believe that what is required next is a theory of both general intelligence and fluid cognitive functions that articulates the distinction. In the absence of this, more data, particularly of the neuroscience variety, is likely to stall rather than advance progress. (Published Online April 5 2006).
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10The problem with brain GUTs: Conflation of different senses of “prediction” threatens metaphysical disasterBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (3): 204-205. 2013.
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5The Massive Redeployment Hypothesis and the Functional Topography of the BrainPhilosophical Psychology 20 (2): 143-174. 2007.This essay introduces the massive redeployment hypothesis, an account of the functional organization of the brain that centrally features the fact that brain areas are typically employed to support numerous functions. The central contribution of the essay is to outline a middle course between strict localization on the one hand, and holism on the other, in such a way as to account for the supporting data on both sides of the argument. The massive redeployment hypothesis is supported by case stud…Read more
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14The massive redeployment hypothesis and the functional topography of the brainPhilosophical Psychology 21 (2): 143-174. 2008.This essay introduces the massive redeployment hypothesis, an account of the functional organization of the brain that centrally features the fact that brain areas are typically employed to support numerous functions. The central contribution of the essay is to outline a middle course between strict localization on the one hand, and holism on the other, in such a way as to account for the supporting data on both sides of the argument. The massive redeployment hypothesis is supported by case stud…Read more
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17Prelinguistic agents will form only egocentric representationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (3): 284-285. 2003.The representations formed by the ventral and dorsal streams of a prelinguistic agent will tend to be too qualitatively similar to support the distinct roles required by PREDICATE(x) structure. We suggest that the attachment of qualities to objects is not a product of the combination of these separate processing streams, but is instead a part of the processing required in each. In addition, we suggest that the formation of objective predicates is inextricably bound up with the emergence of langu…Read more
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16Massive redeployment, exaptation, and the functional integration of cognitive operationsSynthese 159 (3). 2007.Abstract: The massive redeployment hypothesis (MRH) is a theory about the functional topography of the human brain, offering a middle course between strict localization on the one hand, and holism on the other. Central to MRH is the claim that cognitive evolution proceeded in a way analogous to component reuse in software engineering, whereby existing components-originally developed to serve some specific purpose-were used for new purposes and combined to support new capacities, without disrupti…Read more
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18Eroding the Boundaries of Cognition: Implications of Embodiment 1Topics in Cognitive Science 4 (4): 717-730. 2012.To accept that cognition is embodied is to question many of the beliefs traditionally held by cognitive scientists. One key question regards the localization of cognitive faculties. Here we argue that for cognition to be embodied and sometimes embedded, means that the cognitive faculty cannot be localized in a brain area alone. We review recent research on neural reuse, the 1/f structure of human activity, tool use, group cognition, and social coordination dynamics that we believe demonstrates h…Read more
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28Embodied cognition: A field guideArtificial Intelligence 149 (1): 91-130. 2003.The nature of cognition is being re-considered. Instead of emphasizing formal operations on abstract symbols, the new approach foregrounds the fact that cognition is, rather, a situated activity, and suggests that thinking beings ought therefore be considered first and foremost as acting beings. The essay reviews recent work in Embodied Cognition, provides a concise guide to its principles, attitudes and goals, and identifies the physical grounding project as its central research focus
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15Cognitive science and epistemic opennessPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 5 (2): 125-154. 2006.b>. Recent findings in cognitive science suggest that the epistemic subject is more complex and epistemically porous than is generally pictured. Human knowers are open to the world via multiple channels, each operating for particular purposes and according to its own logic. These findings need to be understood and addressed by the philosophical community. The current essay argues that one consequence of the new findings is to invalidate certain arguments for epistemic anti-realism
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26Machine Ethics (edited book)Cambridge Univ. Press. 2011.The essays in this volume represent the first steps by philosophers and artificial intelligence researchers toward explaining why it is necessary to add an ...
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60Philosophical Psychology would like to thank the following for contributing to the journal as reviewers this past year: Fred Adams Kenneth AizawaPhilosophical Psychology 25 (1): 161-163. 2012.
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4The effects of early onset type 1 diabetes on the young adult brain: A voxel-based morphometry studyFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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91In: B. Hardy-Vallee & N. Payette, eds. Beyond the brain: embodied, situated & distributed cognition. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Press), in press. Abstract: In this article, I do three main things: 1. First, I introduce an approach to the mind motivated primarily by evolutionary considerations. I do that by laying out four principles for the study of the mind from an evolutionary perspective, and four predictions that they suggest. This evolutionary perspective is completely compatible with,…Read more
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Artificial Intelligence, in press. Abstract: For some time we have been developing, and have had significant practical success with, a time-sensitive, contradiction-tolerant logical reasoning engine called the active logic machine (ALMA). The current paper details a semantics for a general version of the underlying logical formalism, active logic. Central to active logic are special rules controlling the inheritance of beliefs in general (and of beliefs about the current time in particular), ver…Read more
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57When things go badly, we notice that something is amiss, figure out what went wrong and why, and attempt to repair the problem. Artificial systems depend on their human designers to program in responses to every eventuality and therefore typically don’t even notice when things go wrong, following their programming over the proverbial, and in some cases literal, cliff. This article describes our work on the Meta-Cognitive Loop, a domain-general approach to giving artificial systems the ability to…Read more
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