What Mental States? Exploring How Dimensionality Reduction Might Contribute to the Refinement of Cognitive Models
Questions in cognitive neuroscience are often framed in terms of correspondences between known types: How is brain state X related to cognitive state Y? What are the correlations or mappings between particular structures and functions? Such framings are well suited for confirmatory testing of coarse-grained hypotheses. They are not necessarily informative, however, for the purpose of exploring ...