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After phrenology: Time for a paradigm shift in cognitive science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Paul Benjamin Badcock ,
Annemie Ploeger  and
Nicholas Brian Allen
Paul Benjamin Badcock
Affiliation:
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3010. pbadcock@unimelb.edu.au Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3052. Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia, 3052.
Annemie Ploeger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. a.ploeger@uva.nl http://www.uva.nl/profiel/a.ploeger
Nicholas Brian Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. nallen3@uoregon.edu http://psychology.uoregon.edu/profile/nallen3/
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Abstract

Anderson (2014) uses an impressive, consolidating review of the literature to argue for major changes in cognitive science. Arguably, however, much of what he proposes is not particularly new. He also neglects important predictive coding approaches that call his perspective of the brain into question, and his misconstrual of evolutionary psychology devalues an influential paradigm that promises to complement his own.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e121
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