@article{1387623,
      recid = {1387623},
      author = {Anderson, Michael L.,},
      title = {After phrenology : neural reuse and the interactive brain  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) :},
      note = {"A Bradford book."},
      abstract = {"The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely  adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the  analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in  phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each  organ must have its particular function, so contemporary  cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each  brain region must have its fundamental computation. In  After Phrenology, Michael Anderson argues that to achieve a  fully post-phrenological science of the brain, we need to  reassess this commitment and devise an alternate,  neuroscientifically grounded taxonomy of mental function.  Anderson contends that the cognitive roles played by each  region of the brain are highly various, reflecting  different neural partnerships established under different  circumstances. He proposes quantifying the functional  properties of neural assemblies in terms of their  dispositional tendencies rather than their computational or  information-processing operations. Exploring larger-scale  issues, and drawing on evidence from embodied cognition,  Anderson develops a picture of thinking rooted in the  exploitation and extension of our early-evolving capacity  for iterated interaction with the world. He argues that the  multidimensional approach to the brain he describes offers  a much better fit for these findings, and a more promising  road toward a unified science of minded organisms"--MIT  CogNet.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387623},
}