Bridging the cognitive-cellular neuroscience gap empirically: a study combining physiology, modelling and fMRI

Familiar questions about the relationship across levels separating psychology from the neurosciences have recently been mirrored in questions about the relationship across levels within the neurosciences themselves. How does 'cognitive neuroscience' relate to the discipline's current...

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Published in:Journal of experimental & theoretical artificial intelligence Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 161 - 175
Main Authors: Bickle, John, Avison, Malcolm, Schmithorst, Vincent, Landreth, Anthony, Holland, Scott
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2003
Subjects:
Autonomy
Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (BOLD-tMRI)
Frontal Eye Fields (FEFs)
Frontal Working Memory Regions (FWMs)
Heuristic
Neurocomputational Modelling
Saccade Sequences
Transdisciplinary Research
ISSN:0952-813X, 1362-3079
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Summary:Familiar questions about the relationship across levels separating psychology from the neurosciences have recently been mirrored in questions about the relationship across levels within the neurosciences themselves. How does 'cognitive neuroscience' relate to the discipline's current cellular and molecular mainstream? Here we adopt an empirical approach toward these 'levels' questions by describing our transdisciplinary research that incorporates findings from cellular physiology, neurocomputational modelling, and functional neuroimaging. Higher level investigations serve as-but only as-essential heuristics for discovering lower level mechanisms. This case study serves as an exemplar for transdisciplinary research in current and foreseeable neuroscience, and its lessons concerning the role of higher level investigations generalize to the more familiar 'levels' questions spanning cognitive science and the neurosciences.
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ISSN:0952-813X
1362-3079
DOI:10.1080/0952813021000055225