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Neuropsychology still needs to model organismic processes “from within”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Juan Pascual-Leone ,
Antonio Pascual-Leone  and
Marie Arsalidou
Juan Pascual-Leone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. juanpl@yorku.ca http://tcolab.blog.yorku.ca/
Antonio Pascual-Leone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. apl@uwindsor.ca http://www1.uwindsor.ca/people/apl/
Marie Arsalidou
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. juanpl@yorku.ca http://tcolab.blog.yorku.ca/ Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 101000 Russia. marie.arsalidou@gmail.com http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/133641316
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Abstract

Four issues are discussed: (1) differences between cognition and emotion; (2) affect, emotion, and motivation differentials, including a neuropsychological model of motivation; (3) mental attention (working memory) as a resource neither affective nor cognitive, but applicable to both; and (4) explication of neuropsychological scheme units, which have neuronal circuits as functional infrastructure, thus helping to clarify the semantics of functional connectivity.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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