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Undermining the foundations: Questioning the basic notions of associationism and mental representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Ezequiel Morsella ,
Travis A. Riddle  and
John A. Bargh
Ezequiel Morsella
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA [email protected]://bss.sfsu.edu/emorsella/ Department of Neurology; University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA [email protected]
Travis A. Riddle
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA [email protected]://bss.sfsu.edu/emorsella/
John A. Bargh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205. [email protected]://pantheon.yale.edu/~jab257/home.html
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Abstract

Perhaps the time has come to re-examine the basic notions of cognitive science. Together with previous challenges against associationism, the target article should be viewed as a call to arms to re-evaluate the empirical basis for contemporary conceptualizations of human learning and the notion of “mental representation,” a concept that has become too imprecise for describing the elements of cognition.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 218 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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