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dc.contributor.authorPulvermüller, F
dc.contributor.authorGaragnani, M
dc.contributor.authorWennekers, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-28T19:26:59Z
dc.date.available2016-07-28T19:26:59Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.identifier.issn0340-1200
dc.identifier.issn1432-0770
dc.identifier.other5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5135
dc.description.abstract

Cognitive theory has decomposed human mental abilities into cognitive (sub) systems, and cognitive neuroscience succeeded in disclosing a host of relationships between cognitive systems and specific structures of the human brain. However, an explanation of why specific functions are located in specific brain loci had still been missing, along with a neurobiological model that makes concrete the neuronal circuits that carry thoughts and meaning. Brain theory, in particular the Hebb-inspired neurocybernetic proposals by Braitenberg, now offers an avenue toward explaining brain-mind relationships and to spell out cognition in terms of neuron circuits in a neuromechanistic sense. Central to this endeavor is the theoretical construct of an elementary functional neuronal unit above the level of individual neurons and below that of whole brain areas and systems: the distributed neuronal assembly (DNA) or thought circuit (TC). It is shown that DNA/TC theory of cognition offers an integrated explanatory perspective on brain mechanisms of perception, action, language, attention, memory, decision and conceptual thought. We argue that DNAs carry all of these functions and that their inner structure (e.g., core and halo subcomponents), and their functional activation dynamics (e.g., ignition and reverberation processes) answer crucial localist questions, such as why memory and decisions draw on prefrontal areas although memory formation is normally driven by information in the senses and in the motor system. We suggest that the ability of building DNAs/TCs spread out over different cortical areas is the key mechanism for a range of specifically human sensorimotor, linguistic and conceptual capacities and that the cell assembly mechanism of overlap reduction is crucial for differentiating a vocabulary of actions, symbols and concepts.

dc.format.extent573-593
dc.format.mediumPrint-Electronic
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.subjectAction perception circuit
dc.subjectCell assembly
dc.subjectConcept
dc.subjectMirror neuron
dc.subjectMemory cell
dc.subjectMeaning
dc.subjectSemantic category
dc.subjectSemantics
dc.titleThinking in circuits: toward neurobiological explanation in cognitive neuroscience
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
dc.typeReview
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plymouth.issue5
plymouth.volume108
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalBiological Cybernetics
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00422-014-0603-9
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dc.publisher.placeGermany
dcterms.dateAccepted2014-03-28
dc.identifier.eissn1432-0770
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rioxxterms.identifier.projectBABEL
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