Cognition is a transient phenomenon created by the functioning of distributed components of the nervous system¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1982 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1987: baselines and conditions change
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The major functional assumption distinguishing the functional from the structural perspective is that cognition is transient and created by distributed neural functioning, an assumption the authors say is supported by neurophysiological evidence. → Iran-Nejad 1982

Evidence¶

Iran-Nejad 1982¶

Iran-Nejad, Asghar & Ortony, Andrew. (1982). Cognition: A Functional View. Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED215308

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument in the paper's introductory section, citing neuroscientific theories (John, Uttal, Sperry, Edelman, Arbib) as supporting the assumption. The authors present it as "unequivocally supported by neurophysiologicalevidence" shared by current neuroscientific theories, quoting Uttal on momentary network activity.

"This assumption is that cognition is,atransientphenomenoncreated _bythe _functioningCif distributed componentsofthe nervous system."

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