An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Neural reuse is a form of neuroplasticity whereby neural elements originally developed for
one purpose are put to multiple uses. A diverse behavioral repertoire is achieved by means …

Engineers use neural networks to control systems too complex for conventional engineering
solutions. To examine the behavior of individual hidden units would defeat the purpose of …

Recent studies on neural pathways in a broad spectrum of vertebrates suggest that, in
addition to migration and an increase in the number of certain select neurons, a significant …

Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition proposes a unifying framework for
the study of cognitive development that brings together (1) constructivism (which views …

How do minds emerge from developing brains? According to “neural constructivism,” the
representational features of cortex are built from the dynamic interaction between neural …

When cognitive neuropsychologists make inferences about the functional architecture of the
normal mind from selective cognitive impairments they generally assume that the effects of …

How does evolution grow bigger brains? It has been widely assumed that growth of
individual structures and functional systems in response to niche-specific cognitive …

Emotions seem to arise ultimately from hard-wired neural circuits in the visceral-limbic brain
that facilitate diverse and adaptive behavioral and physiological responses to major classes …

Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are
regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …