Unification by Fiat: Arrested Development of Predictive Processing

Type Journal Article
Author Piotr Litwin
Author Marcin Miłkowski
URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cogs.12867
Volume 44
Issue 7
Publication Cognitive Science
ISSN 0364-0213, 1551-6709
Date 07/2020
Journal Abbr Cogn Sci
DOI 10.1111/cogs.12867
Accessed 2020-06-29 07:26:17
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Language en
Short Title Unification by Fiat

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Prospection does not imply predictive processing

Type Journal Article
Author Piotr Litwin
Author Marcin Miłkowski
URL https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0140525X19002991/type/journal_article
Volume 43
Pages e137
Publication Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ISSN 0140-525X, 1469-1825
Date 2020
Journal Abbr Behav Brain Sci
DOI 10.1017/S0140525X19002991
Accessed 2020-06-19 11:17:42
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Language en
Abstract Abstract
Predictive processing models of psychopathologies are not explanatorily consistent with the present account of abstract thought. These models are based on latent variables probabilistically mapping the structure of the world. As such, they cannot be informed by representational ontology based on mental objects and states. What actually is the case is merely some terminological affinity between subjective and informational uncertainty.

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Methodology of ‘History of Polish Madness’

Type Journal Article
Author Mira Marcinów
URL http://avant.edu.pl/en/2020-01-07
Volume 11
Issue 1
Publication AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
ISSN 20826710
Date 2020
Journal Abbr AVANT
DOI 10.26913/avant.2020.01.07
Accessed 2020-03-01 12:00:41
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What it is like to be a pickpocket

Type Journal Article
Author Witold M Wachowski
URL http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354067X19894934
Pages 1354067X1989493
Publication Culture & Psychology
ISSN 1354-067X, 1461-7056
Date 2019-12-17
Journal Abbr Culture & Psychology
DOI 10.1177/1354067X19894934
Accessed 2020-03-01 10:42:42
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Language en

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Thinking about Semantic Information

Type Journal Article
Author Marcin Miłkowski
URL http://avant.edu.pl/en/2020-02-08
Volume XI
Issue 2
Pages 1-10
Publication Avant
Date 2020
Extra Library Catalog: avant.edu.pl
DOI 10.26913/avant.2020.02.08
Accessed 2020-02-29 11:14:23
Language en-US
Abstract In his recent book, Daniel Dennett defends a novel account of semantic information in terms of design worth getting (Dennett, 2017). While this is an interesting proposal in itself, my purpose in this commentary is to challenge several of Dennett’s claims. First, he argues that semantic information can be transferred without encoding and storing it. Second, this lack of encoding is what makes semantic information unmeasurable. However, the argument for both these claims, presented by Dennett as an intuition pump, is invalid.

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Tracking the Objects of the Psychopathology

Type Journal Article
Author Przemysław Nowakowski
URL http://avant.edu.pl/en/2020-01-05
Volume XI
Issue 1
Pages 1-14
Publication AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
Date 2020
DOI 10.26913/avant.2020.01.05
Accessed 2020-01-06 15:41:38
Language en-US

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Representational unification in cognitive science: Is embodied cognition a unifying perspective?

Type Journal Article
Author Marcin Miłkowski
Author Przemysław Nowakowski
URL http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11229-019-02445-w
Publication Synthese
ISSN 0039-7857, 1573-0964
Date 2019-10-24
Journal Abbr Synthese
DOI 10.1007/s11229-019-02445-w
Accessed 2019-10-25 13:26:31
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Language en
Short Title Representational unification in cognitive science

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Mechanisms in psychology: The road towards unity?

Type Journal Article
Author Marcin Miłkowski
Author Mateusz Hohol
Author Przemysław Nowakowski
URL https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319875218
Volume 29
Issue 5
Pages 567-578
Publication Theory & Psychology
ISSN 0959-3543
Date October 1, 2019
Journal Abbr Theory & Psychology
DOI 10.1177/0959354319875218
Accessed 2019-10-18 13:49:47
Library Catalog SAGE Journals
Language en
Abstract The focus of this special issue of Theory & Psychology is on explanatory mechanisms in psychology, especially on problems of particular prominence for psychological science such as theoretical integration and unification. Proponents of the framework of mechanistic explanation claim, in short, that satisfactory explanations in psychology and related fields are causal. They stress the importance of explaining phenomena by describing mechanisms that are responsible for them, in particular by elucidating how the organization of component parts and operations in mechanisms gives rise to phenomena in certain conditions. We hope for cross-pollination between philosophical approaches to explanation and experimental psychology, which could offer methodological guidance, in particular where mechanism discovery and theoretical integration are at issue. Contributions in this issue pertain to theoretical integration and unification of psychology as well as the growing importance of causal mechanistic explanations in psychological science.
Short Title Mechanisms in psychology

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Extending Bayesian Models of the Rubber Hand Illusion

Type Journal Article
Author Piotr Litwin
URL https://brill.com/view/journals/msr/aop/article-10.1163-22134808-20191440.xml
Pages 1-34
Publication Multisensory Research
ISSN 2213-4794, 2213-4808
Date 2019
Journal Abbr Multisens. Res.
DOI 10.1163/22134808-20191440
Accessed 2019-09-22 11:45:12
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Abstract Abstract
Human body sense is surprisingly flexible — in the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI), precisely administered visuo-tactile stimulation elicits a sense of ownership over a fake hand. The general consensus is that there are certain semantic top-down constraints on which objects may be incorporated in this way: in particular, to-be-embodied objects should be structurally similar to a visual representation stored in an internal body model. However, empirical evidence shows that the sense of ownership may extend to objects strikingly distinct in morphology and structure (e.g., robotic arms) and the hypothesis about the relevance of appearance lacks direct empirical support. Probabilistic multisensory integration approaches constitute a promising alternative. However, the recent Bayesian models of RHI limit too strictly the possible factors influencing likelihood and prior probability distributions. In this paper, I analyse how Bayesian models of RHI could be extended. The introduction of skin-based spatial information can account for the cross-compensation of sensory signals giving rise to RHI. Furthermore, addition of Bayesian Coupling Priors, depending on (1) internal learned models of relatedness (coupling strength) of sensory cues, (2) scope of temporal binding windows, and (3) extension of peripersonal space, would allow quantification of individual tendencies to integrate divergent visual and somatosensory signals. The extension of Bayesian models would yield an empirically testable proposition accounting comprehensively for a wide spectrum of RHI-related phenomena and rendering appearance-oriented internal body models explanatorily redundant.

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