Lessons From Cognitive Neuropsychology for Cognitive Science: A Reply to Patterson and Plaut (2009)
Lessons From Cognitive Neuropsychology for Cognitive Science: A Reply to Patterson and Plaut (2009)
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10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01067.x
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2010-01-01
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Coltheart, Max
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Coltheart, Max
这本杂志最近的一篇文章(Patterson&Plaut，2009)认为，认知神经心理学在过去的三四十年里几乎没有告诉我们“大脑是如何完成其认知业务的”。这可能是真的，但并不重要，因为认知神经心理学的主要目的不是了解大脑。相反，它的主要目的是学习心灵，也就是阐明认知的功能架构。我表明，这是这样的：(A)通过对该领域主要人物的广泛引用，以及(B)通过分析该领域领先期刊《认知神经心理学》上文章的主题。最近对这一领域过去25年工作的回顾(Coltheart&Caramazza，2006)得出结论：认知神经心理学告诉了我们许多关于认知在各种认知领域中的功能结构。Patterson和Plaut(2009)没有考虑认知神经心理学的这一目标。因此，他们的结论是，认知神经心理学并不成功，这是因为它使用的特定方法存在缺陷，这是不合理的。
A recent article in this journal (Patterson & Plaut, 2009) argued that cognitive neuropsychology has told us very little over the past 30 or 40 years about "how the brain accomplishes its cognitive business.'' This may well be true, but it is not important, because the principal aim of cognitive neuropsychology is not to learn about the brain. Its principal aim is instead to learn about the mind, that is, to elucidate the functional architecture of cognition. I show that this is so (a) via extensive quotations from leading figures in this field and (b) by analysis of the subject matter of articles in the leading journal in the field, Cognitive Neuropsychology. Recent reviews of the past 25 years of work in this field (Coltheart & Caramazza, 2006) have concluded that cognitive neuropsychology has told us much about the functional architecture of cognition in a variety of cognitive domains. Patterson and Plaut (2009) did not consider this aim of cognitive neuropsychology. Therefore, their conclusions that cognitive neuropsychology has not been successful, and that this is because the particular methods it uses are flawed, are not justified.