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Has the brain evolved to answer “binding questions” or to generate likely hypotheses about complex and continuously changing environments?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2006

Birgitta Dresp
Affiliation:
CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France Birgitta.Dresp@univ-lyon2.fr
Jean Charles Barthaud
Affiliation:
Laboratoire “Etudes des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC),” Université de Lyon 2, Campus Porte des Alpes, 69676 Bron Cedex, France jean-charles.barthaud@univ-lyon2.fr
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Abstract

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We question the ecological plausibility as a general model of cognition of van der Velde's & de Kamps's combinatorial blackboard architecture, where knowledge-binding in space and time relies on the structural rules of language. Evidence against their view of the brain and an ecologically plausible, alternative model of cognition are brought forward.

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© 2006 Cambridge University Press