Cognitive Science Program. A Framework for Relating Cognitive to Neural Systems

摘要

This paper outlines a framework for relating cognitive activities of daily life (typing, reading) to underlying neural systems. The framework uses five levels of analysis. These are as follows: task, elementary operations, components facilitation and inhibition, neural systems and cellular level. Evidence is outlined which supports the idea that component facilitations and inhibitions in performance can be systematically linked to the activity of neural populations. The evidence is in the area of spatial attention and uses results of normals and patients as well as data from surface EEG and recording of single cells during selective attention tasks.