LEADER 03446oam 2200577 450 001 9910136404703321 005 20230621135323.0 010 $a9782889195978$b(ebook) 035 $a(CKB)3710000000612054 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62635 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000612054 100 $a20191103h20152015 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhat levels of explanation in the behavioural sciences? /$fedited by Giuseppe Boccignone and Roberto Cordeschi 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2015 210 1$a[Lausanne, Switzerland] :$cFrontiers Media SA,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (91 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 225 1 $aFrontiers Research Topics 300 $a"Published in: Frontiers in Psychology" -- front cover. 311 08$aPrint version: 288919597X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aComplex systems are to be seen as typically having multiple levels of organization. For instance, in the behavioural and cognitive sciences, there has been a long lasting trend, promoted by the seminal work of David Marr, putting focus on three distinct levels of analysis: the computational level, accounting for the What and Why issues, the algorithmic and the implementational levels specifying the How problem. However, the tremendous developments in neuroscience knowledge about processes at different scales of organization together with the complexity of today cognitive theories suggest that there will hardly be only three levels of explanation. Instead, there will be many different degrees of commitments corresponding to the different granularities--from high-level (behavioural) models to low-level (neural and molecular) models of the cognitive research program. For instance, Bayesian approaches, that are usually advocated for formalizing Marr's computational level and rational behaviour, have even been adopted to model synaptic plasticity and axon guidance by molecular gradients. As a result, we can consider the behavioural scientist as dealing with models at a multiplicity of levels. The purpose of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is to promote an approach to the role of the levels and explanation and models which is of interest for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers of science. 410 0$aFrontiers research topics. 606 $aCognitive psychology$xMethodology 606 $aSocial sciences$xMethodology 606 $aHuman behavior 610 $aLevels of explanation 610 $aCognitive architectures 610 $aneuroscientific models 610 $aComputational models 610 $ahuman behavior 610 $aFunctional models 610 $aReductionism 610 $amechanisms 615 0$aCognitive psychology$xMethodology. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xMethodology. 615 0$aHuman behavior. 676 $aE 700 $aRoberto Cordeschi$4auth$01364581 702 $aBoccignone$b Giuseppe 702 $aCordeschi$b Roberto 801 0$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136404703321 996 $aWhat levels of explanation in the behavioural sciences$93386005 997 $aUNINA