Abstract

A radical embodied cognitive neuroscience (RECN) based on ecological psychology requires the understanding of the brain, its structure, and its functions to be compatible with the main tenets of the Gibsonian theory. In this paper, we propose neural reuse as a promising candidate to achieve such understanding. We base our proposal on two fundamental ideas. In section two, we review what we take to be the two central requirements for a RECN based on ecological psychology: compatibility with the explanation of perception and action at the ecological scale and the rejection of computation as a paradigm for the explanation of the activity of the brain. In section three, we show how neural reuse meets the two requirements and, furthermore, we evaluate its theoretical parallelism with ecological psychology. Finally, after developing these ideas, in the conclusion we put forward further aspects and research possibilities that follow from the coalition of neural reuse and ecological psychology for a Gibsonian neuroscience.

摘要

基于生态心理学的激进的体现性认知神经科学（RECN）需要对大脑，大脑的结构及其功能的理解与吉布森理论的主要原理兼容。在本文中，我们提出将神经重用作为实现这种理解的有希望的候选者。我们的提案基于两个基本思想。在第二部分中，我们回顾了基于生态心理学的RECN的两个主要要求：与生态规模上的知觉和行为解释的相容性以及拒绝作为解释人类活动的范式的计算大脑。在第三部分中，我们展示了神经重用如何满足这两个要求，此外，我们还评估了其在理论上与生态心理学的平行性。最后，在提出这些想法之后，