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Behav Brain Sci
; 39: e125, 2016 Jan.
Artículo
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27562010
RESUMEN
Anderson (2014) proposes a bottom-up approach to cognitive ontology revision: Neuroscientists should revise their taxonomies of cognitive constructs on the basis of brain activation patterns across many tasks. We argue that such bottom-up proposal is bound to commit a mistake of reification: It treats the abstract mathematical entities uncovered by dimension reduction techniques as if they were real psychological entities.