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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Computational models are increasingly used in cognitive science and neuroscience to explain psychological functions and predict cognition, brain activity, and behavior.
  • These models relate phenomena like experimental effects and individual differences to underlying cognitive mechanisms, defining a "cognitive state space."

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the rationale and practice of model-based inferences in cognitive science and neuroscience.
  • To argue that current model-based explanations lack a crucial component: understanding *why* and *how* agents move within the cognitive state space.

Main Methods:

  • Reviewing existing research practices in experimental design and model-based data analysis.
  • Utilizing simulations to demonstrate inferential pitfalls arising from ignoring dynamic aspects of cognitive state space traversal.
  • Analyzing constraints on movement, agent objectives, and guiding mechanisms within the cognitive state space.

Main Results:

  • Model-based explanations often fail to account for the dynamic nature of behavior, which results from trajectories through cognitive state spaces rather than static positions.
  • Ignoring the agent's perspective and movement dynamics leads to inferential pitfalls in understanding cognitive variation.

Conclusions:

  • Acknowledging that an agent's position in the cognitive state space is not fixed but a trajectory is critical for more complete explanations of cognition and behavior.
  • Focusing on the agent's perspective, including movement constraints, objectives, and guiding mechanisms, enhances understanding of variation over time, across environments, and between individuals/populations.