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Is the mind a network? Maps, vehicles, and skyhooks in cognitive network science
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Hills, Thomas Trenholm and Kenett, Yoed N. (2022) Is the mind a network? Maps, vehicles, and skyhooks in cognitive network science. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14 (1). pp. 189-208. doi:10.1111/tops.12570 ISSN 1756-8757.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12570
Abstract
Cognitive researchers often carve cognition up into structures and processes. Cognitive processes operate on structures, like vehicles driving over a map. Language alongside semantic and episodic memory are proposed to have structure, as are perceptual systems. Over these structures, processes operate to construct memory and solve problems by retrieving and manipulating information. Network science offers an approach to representing cognitive structures and has made tremendous inroads into understanding the nature of cognitive structure and process. But is the mind a network? If so, what kind? In this article, we briefly review the main metaphors, assumptions, and pitfalls prevalent in cognitive network science (maps and vehicles; one network/process to rule them all), highlight the need for new metaphors that elaborate on the map-and-vehicle framework (wormholes, skyhooks, and generators), and present open questions in studying the mind as a network (the challenge of capturing network change, what should the edges of cognitive networks be made of, and aggregated vs. individual-based networks). One critical lesson of this exercise is that the richness of the mind as network approach makes it a powerful tool in its own right; it has helped to make our assumptions more visible, generating new and fascinating questions, and enriching the prospects for future research. A second lesson is that the mind as a network–though useful–is incomplete. The mind is not a network, but it may contain them.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QP Physiology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cognitive psychology, Neural networks (Neurobiology) , Memory , Cognition | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Topics in Cognitive Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1756-8757 | ||||||||
Official Date: | January 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 189-208 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/tops.12570 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hills, T.T. and Kenett, Y.N. (2021), Is the Mind a Network? Maps, Vehicles, and Skyhooks in Cognitive Network Science. Top. Cogn. Sci., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12570. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 Cognitive Science Society LLC | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 September 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 September 2021 |
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