The Relationship of Cognitive and Cell Biological Analyses of Associative Learning

神经科学正在经历爆炸性的增长，尽管 关于其社会和文化影响的许多重要问题 仍然没有答案，相关历史案例研究的基础是 严重不足。 作为一个剩余的，很多哲学讨论， 神经科学的重要性不受历史的影响， 约束。 例如，虽然“消除性”和 “保留”唯物主义者澄清了 神经病学和“民间心理学”的对抗，它没有 解决了细节涉及的努力，统一认知 神经科学 这场辩论过于简单化， 基于误导性类比的理论间还原概念 在一个单一领域内的历时性发展之间（例如，化学 燃烧及其产物的分析）和同步关系 在不同层次上处理现象的理论之间 组织或复杂性。 Manier博士的案例研究 根据这项赠款进行的审查将有助于努力补救 通过研究神经科学和心理学之间的关系 和心理学对联想学习机制的研究。 这些领域的科学家能够利用严格的 实验操作的模式，他们的工作是吸引 广泛的理论兴趣。 初步研究表明， 两种认知方法之间的明显分歧， 学习机制，这可能会使整合 细胞和分子生物学研究领域的主要发展 神经生物学 有了这笔资金，Manier博士将在现场进行 档案和民族志研究以及一系列结构化的 与主要科学家的访谈，以澄清细节 这种分歧，并评估其影响的关系， 神经科学和认知心理学。 这个项目的最终目标 项目旨在为评估提供适当的历史基础 构建统一科学的哲学观 从以前不同的研究领域的领域。 本研究 对历史和哲学都具有重要意义， 科学 此外，它提供了一个非常需要的哲学调查， 这些快速发展的生物和认知科学领域。

The neurosciences are experiencing explosive growth and, although many important questions concerning their social and cultural impact remain unanswered, the base of relevant historical case studies is glaringly inadequate. As a reslt, much philosophical discussion of the significance of neuroscience floats free of needed historical constraint. For example, while the debate between "eliminative" and "retentive" materialists has clarified issues raised by the confrontation of neurology and "folk psychology," it has not addressed the detail involved in efforts to unify cognitive neuroscience. The debate has been oversimplified by its reliance on a concept of inter-theoretic reduction based on misleading analogies between diachronic developments within a single field (eg. chemical analysis of combustion and its products) and synchronic relations between theories dealing with phenomena at different levels of organization or complexity. The case study which Dr. Manier is examining under this grant will contribute to the effort to remedy such deficits by examining the relationship between neuroscientific and psychological studies of the associative learning mechanism. Scientists in these fields are able to avail themselves of rigorous modes of experimental manipulation and their work is attracting widespread theoretical interest. Preliminary research has identified an apparent split between two cognitive approaches to the associative learning mechanism which could complicate efforts to integrate that research area with major developments in cellular and molecular neurobiology. With this grant, Dr. Manier will carry out on-site archival and ethnographic research and a series of structured interviews with principal scientists in order to clarify the details of this divergence and assess its implications for relations linking neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The ultimate goal of this project is to provide an appropriate historical basis for assessing philosophical views concerning the construction of unified scientific domains from previously disparate areas of research. This research is of great importance for both the history and the philosophy of science. Further, it provides a much needed philosophical survey of these fast-moving areas of the biological and cognitive sciences.