Synaptic plasticity is widely considered to provide the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. From the perspective of “classical” cognitive science, this view cannot be upheld. Here, I summarise the argument against the synapse as the (sole) …
Synaptic plasticity is widely considered to be the neurobiological basis of learning and memory by neuroscientists and researchers in adjacent fields, though diverging opinions are increasingly being recognized. From the perspective of what we might …
The cognitive revolution of the 1950s reinvigorated the idea that the brain is the organ enabling the mind. Hence, the human ability to acquire and use language, a fundamentally mental property, must be considered and studied as a property of the …