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Sejnowski and patricia smith churchland the hope that biological and cognitive levels of investigation might be integrated has had a long history. Novak professor emeritus, cornell university and senior research scientist florida institute for human and machine cognition ihmc alberto j. Cognitive science, the interdisciplinary scientific investigation of the mind and intelligence. Biology, cognition, and learning biological constraint in conditioning were behaviorists accurate in assessing that cognition is not important in learning. A major goal of cognitive neuroscience is the construction of integrated theories of cognition and behavior, and we wanted to illustrate the process of theory. How we think about cognition, emotion, and biology in.
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