Embodied (4EA) cognitive computational neuroscience

Cogn Neurosci. 2024 Jul-Oct;15(3-4):119-121. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2405192. Epub 2024 Sep 21.

Abstract

I argue that ideas and models about the mechanisms of neural computation and representation - including computational architecture, representational format, encoding schemes, learning methods, computation-representation coordination, and substrate-dependent aspects - must be tested by studying embodied neural systems. Thus, cognitive computational neuroscience - the study of neural computations over neural representations - must be an embodied research program.

Keywords: 4EA; Mechanism; computation; embodiment; explanation; representation.

MeSH terms

  • Brain / physiology
  • Cognition / physiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience*
  • Humans
  • Models, Neurological
  • Neurosciences