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Viewing cognitive mechanisms in the context of biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Linda Hermer-Vazquez
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Linda.Hermer-Vazquez@downstate.edu

Abstract

Cognitive mechanisms are based in organisms’biology, and results from biological studies suggest that there is unlikely to be a single mechanism for reorienting or for combining information across modules or domains. Rather, there are likely to be multiple, partly overlapping systems for accomplishing nearly all cognitive and behavioral goals, as is the case for biological mechanisms more generally.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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