Building to Discover: A Common Coding Model  

Oleh:

Chandrasekharan, Sanjay

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cognitive Science vol. 33 no. 6 (Aug. 2009), page 1059–1086.
Topik: Distributed cognition; Scientific cognition; Simulative model-based reasoning; Common coding; Scientific visualization
Fulltext: 04. Building to Discover - A Common Coding Model.pdf (334.59KB)

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I present a case study of scientific discovery, where building two functional and behavioral approximations of neurons, one physical and the other computational, led to conceptual and implementation breakthroughs in a neural engineering laboratory. Such building of external systems that mimic target phenomena, and the use of these external systems to generate novel concepts and control structures, is a standard strategy in the new engineering sciences. I develop a model of the cognitive mechanism that connects such built external systems with internal models, and I examine how new discoveries, and consensus on discoveries, could arise from this external-internal coupling and the building process. The model is based on the emerging framework of common coding, which proposes a shared representation in the brain between the execution, perception, and imagination of movement.

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