"大脑是...":对大脑的许多定义的调查
Taylor Bolt1, Lucina Q Uddin2,3
1Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA. taylor.s.bolt@gmail.com.
Neuroinformatics
|January 11, 2025
概括
人类大脑在科学文献中使用各种短语来描述,通常是作为一个复杂的网络或信息处理器. 分析揭示了与其他器官相比,大脑的独特类比,突出了各种概念化.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 生物医学文学分析 医学文献分析
- 计算语言学 计算语言学
背景情况:
- 科学文献经常使用简洁的短语来定义大脑的基本功能和特性.
- 在描述大脑时,隐喻和类比是常见的,例如"动态系统"或"复杂网络".
研究的目的:
- 为了调查和识别生物医学文献中最常见的'大脑是...'形式的短语.
- 通过短语分析,了解当前对大脑的概念化.
- 将与大脑有关的短语与其他器官的短语进行比较.
主要方法:
- 文本分析工具被应用于一个大群体,超过400万个同行评审的生物医学文章和摘要.
- 提取了"大脑是"...形式的短语,并进行了频率分析.
- 识别的短语被分类,并与用于心脏和肝脏等其他器官的短语进行比较.
主要成果:
- 确定了十多个经常出现的短语,包括隐喻 ("信息处理器"",预测机") 和功能描述 ("应激适应的中心器官").
- 大脑在器官中是独一无二的,因为它所属的类比的数量和多样性.
- 在大脑和其他器官之间发现了共同的短语 (例如,心脏作为一个"复杂的,动态的系统").
结论:
- 这项分析强调了科学文献中对大脑赋予的品质和功能的广泛多样性.
- 目前对大脑的概念化是多样化的,并且抵制单一的,统一的定义.
- 这些发现突显了大脑研究和理解的多方面的性质.
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