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Cortical localization debate with its historical background
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2012
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Ekemen, Cengiz
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The primary aim of this thesis is the consideration of neuroscientific studies regarding the localization of high-level cognitive (i.e., nonsensory and nonmotor) processes into the brain. To accomplish this aim, I briefly summarized history of the localizations which lead to the cortical localization of high-level cognitive processes. Then, I present a case study, memory consolidation to compare molecular neuroscience (MN) and cognitive neuroscience (CN) as to how they differ in their localizations. After I put forward the difference between MN and CN, I make use of Uttal’s arguments to consider the localizations of MN and CN. His arguments resemble the underdetermination problem and pessimistic meta-induction (PMI) highly debated topic in scientific realism debate. In this respect, I examine UD and PMI with its relevance to MN and CN.
Subject Keywords
Cognitive neuroscience.
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Cognitive psychology.
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Pessimism.
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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614808/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21872
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis