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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Levels of explanation and the workings of science |
Author: | Perfors, A. |
Citation: | Australian Journal of Psychology, 2012; 64(1 Sp Iss):52-59 |
Publisher: | Australian Psychological Soc |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISSN: | 0004-9530 1742-9536 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Amy Perfors |
Abstract: | I address two questions that underlie most of the articles in this special issue: 1) What do different levels of explanation in psychology reveal? And 2) how do the dynamics of science affect what can be learned? I suggest that understanding hypothesis testing and generation in the abstract can provide a useful framework for understanding how cognitive modelling and neuroscience may interact. I further suggest that the preference for simple explanations and the dynamics of hypothesis testing may play out in different ways within the two fields, and that their overlap may prove most useful in the realm of hypothesis generation. |
Keywords: | cognitive science and intelligent systems neuroscience psychology as a discipline |
Rights: | © 2011 The Australian Psychological Society |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00044.x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00044.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Psychology publications |
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