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Why a blog of cognitive science

GESCO The meeting of Tuesday, June 12-07th was a success. We already knew that in Genoa, in the various faculties, there are groups that carry out research on various aspects of cognitive science, but GESCO-07 showed that even the desire to meet and discuss issues of common interest, even if On that occasion there was too little time to do it.

For those who wish to continue the discussion, or maybe just to follow it, we've created this blog where it is easy to intervene. To avoid the risk, always present in these initiatives, the blog will become a chaotic jumble in which anyone who writes what happens, it might have been appropriate for it to be "moderate" and that the messages were "read and approved." But this would require, since someone had enough time to do it, even some "authoritarianism" that we did not feel to take.

We have therefore opted for an intermediate solution. A free mechanism, in which what is written is not filtered in any way, but with a minimum of thematic structure . So we've taken us the freedom to choose some topics to start breaking the ice with the inevitable partiality of our perspective (but it is quite normal for those who choose open discussion topics ...).

We therefore proposed a number of points that we considered the most critical and debated during GESCO-07. These issues must be considered very provisional as simple inputs on which we await feedback. Although we may have already put too many irons in the fire, of course, arise if the proposals on other issues considered central we are well prepared to enter them. It will also be possible for those who would be empowered to propose new topics directly, but in this case will require a registration process. Finally, you can be better informed of initiatives and events of general interest.

meantime I wish all of you to find satisfaction from this blog and that the exchange of ideas is really fruitful.

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Performances: space

The concept of representation is central in cognitive science. Maybe it's the influence of cognitivism. Some problems concerning certain specific representations, such as the space or mathematical concepts, become common problems when you find that there are similarities between the way they are relevant in a discipline and in the other.

The debate on the representation of space, for example, has given rise to the idea that - like all the performances - also is not "neutral" but centered (has a certain point of view and a target). Those who have studied the diagrammatic representations (including education) are long saying that the maps, diagrams, etc.. not speak for themselves. Michele Castelnovi showed that there are conditions (cognitive but also cultural) in the construction and interpretation of maps. And that is closer, this is also what is most central.

Margarone and colleagues, media interested in building maps for orientation, they realized that you need to know how the maps are drawn to avoid giving too much information at the same time (cognitive load), but also found that relationships between objects or elements at local level in a situation are better prepared to be blind to what they are not global properties. More Once that is nearest station. When he

Mazzei and colleagues have given us details on neuropsychological geographical area in Alzheimer's disease, we had a further suggestive support to the same idea: the "centering" could be linked to accessibility mnemonic. Perhaps the availability heuristic by Tversky and Kahnemann affects not only when it comes to judging.

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emergent properties, what are they?

He spoke explicitly of "emergent properties" Fabio Benfenati, who said that the mind is obviously an emergent property of brain activity. But the question of how we can have overall characteristics of a system independently of the component parts was also present in the report of Charles Chiorri, and more generally it is a problem that arises whenever we talk about organization of neural networks. It is not a clear concept, that is a good topic for discussion.

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Abstraction: necessary, useful, unbearable?

The discussion on a number of reports focused on the problem of how to consider abstract mental processes. Maurizio Martelli was among the supporters of the idea that abstraction makes the powerful language and thought, Laura Salmon was on the opposite side to argue that the abstraction explicit pales in comparison to the power of automation, procedures implied. Perhaps also the discussion of syntax and semantics could be tied to this issue. What do you think?

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Cognitive Science or Cognitive Science?

The report Luisa Montecucco put on the table the most basic question of all: what are we talking about?

It 'clear that the use of the singular (cognitive science) or plural (cognitive sciences) is not a mere matter of form. If we use the singular, we think that there is already a ' only science that studies the facts "cognitive." If so, we could also say that it is an interdisciplinary science because it comes from a combination of theories and methods from various disciplines (such as psycholinguistics, psychology and even that is not linguistic, although related with both). Instead it is an interdisciplinary because our various disciplines working together on a common object, which conventionally call "cognitive processes", although this would be discussed.

This collaboration takes place from different points of view, that is, using different methods, languages, criteria for making "scientific" than common sense to what we say.

Luisa asked what place could be philosophy, a discipline ("naturalization") waiting for the results of cognitive science to comment on and rate? discipline (epistemology), which analyzes methods of cognitive science and languages? or a cognitive science like the others, which also occupies the mind and knowledge? It seems to me that Louise leant to the latter possibility, and I would agree.

We must not be seduced by the word "science" in this context. I understand this word as a synonym for "knowledge tool", not as an institutionalized system of certain knowledge. Personally (not the philosopher) believe that the peculiarities of the philosophical in our case (as elsewhere) does not concern the object of study - that is the same (still call it "cognitive processes", in order to find a better definition ) - but in different ways to claim their own reasons. The scientist shows you are right trying to bring empirical evidence, the philosopher shows they're right, bringing the arguments (logical, dialectical, sometimes rhetorical ...). The scientist tries to show how he is solving problems, find the philosopher's always new problems to solve ... It is an approach that is right and one wrong ... are "knowledge tools" different.