Neuroscience Articles


Hardy-Vallée, B., & Thagard, P. (2008). How to play the ultimatum game: An engineering approach to metanormativity. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 173-192. PDF

Litt, A., Eliasmith, C., Kroon, F. W., Weinstein, S., & Thagard, P. (2006). Is the brain a quantum computer? Cognitive Science, 30, 593-603.PDF.

Litt, A., Eliasmith, C., & Thagard, P. (2008). Neural affective decision theory: Choices, brains, and emotions. Cognitive Systems Research, 9: 252-273. PDF

Litt, A., Eliasmith, C., & Thagard, P. (2006). Why losses loom larger than gains: Modeling neural mechanisms of cognitive-affective interaction. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 495-500). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF

Parisien, C., & Thagard, P. (2008). Robosemantics: How Stanley the Volkswagen represents the world. Minds and Machines, 18, 169-178. PDF

Thagard, P. (2006). Desires are not propositional attitudes. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 45: 151-156. PDF.

Thagard, P. (2007). Abductive inference: From philosophical analysis to neural mechanisms. In A. Feeney & E. Heit (Eds.), Inductive reasoning: Experimental, developmental, and computational approaches (pp. 226-247). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Thagard, P. (2007). The moral psychology of conflicts of interest: Insights from affective neuroscience. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24, 367-380. PDF

Thagard, P. (2008). How cognition meets emotion: Beliefs, desires, and feelings as neural activity. In G. Brun, U. Doguoglu & D. Kuenzle (Eds.), Epistemology and emotions (pp. 167-184). . Aldershot: Ashgate. PDF

Thagard, P. (2008). Mental illness from the perspective of theoretical neuroscience. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51, 335-352.

Thagard, P., & Aubie, B. (2008). Emotional consciousness: A neural model of how cognitive appraisal and somatic perception interact to produce qualitative experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 17: 811-834. PDF

Thagard, P., & Litt, A. (2008). Models of scientific explanation. In R. Sun (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of computational psychology (pp. 549-564). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Wagar, B. M., & Thagard, P. (2004). Spiking Phineas Gage: A neurocomputational theory of cognitive-affective integration in decision making. Psychological Review, 111, 67-79. PDF

 


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