This brief report provides an overview of the Special Issue on The Mind and The Brain: A
Multiscale Interpretation of Cognitive Brain Functionality. It serves as a concise guide for the …

This special issue contains a collection of papers from the 2013 conference of the Society for
Complex Systems in Cognitive Science (SCSCS), held as a satellite of the Cognitive …

Much of cognitive neuroscience as well as traditional cognitive science is engaged in a
quest for mechanisms through a project of decomposition and localization of cognitive …

Perspectives on Examining the Architecture and Function of the Human Brain as a Complex
System michael s. gazzaniga, karl w. doron, and chadd m. funk gazzaniga, doron, and funk …

This paper summarizes five major themes of discussion stemming from a recent workshop at
the University of Toronto. The focus of the workshop was whether the phenomenology of …

Real-world environments are typically dynamic, complex, and multisensory in nature and
require the support of top–down attention and memory mechanisms for us to be able to drive …

Understanding the human brain is a “Grand Challenge” for 21st century research.
Computational approaches enable large and complex datasets to be addressed efficiently …

This paper explores the brain-behavior relationship, integrating embodiment, enactment,
and dynamical processes. The classical dynamical hypothesis offers a mathematical …

We present a multiscale integrationist interpretation of the boundaries of cognitive systems,
using the Markov blanket formalism of the variational free energy principle. This …

The overarching goal of cognitive science research is to understand the organizing
principles of brain physiology that underlie human behavior. To-date, neurobiological …