Felipe De Brigard ( Durham, USA), Characterizing dynamic cognitive systems ( Online )
12 February 2025 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min
Felipe De Brigard is the Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Philosophy and an Associate Professor in the Psychology and Neuroscience departments and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University.
As Principal Investigator of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab within the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Felipe De Brigard’s research centers on memory and its connections to cognitive faculties like perception, imagination, attention, and consciousness, with additional interests in the philosophy of neuroscience and moral psychology.
Abstract :
In a recent paper, De Brigard (2017, Philosophical Explorations) argues that a successful neuroscientific account of “cognitive system” needs to capture the fact that brains change overtime (i.e., exhibit diachronic dynamicity) even when these changes do not affect their functional profile (i.e., exhibit functional stability).
Unfortunately, in that paper, he fails to offer a satisfactory account that can capture both features. To fill that gap, the current paper offers a graph-theoretic strategy to characterize cognitive systems in a way that captures both diachronic dynamicity and functional stability. Specifically, it is suggested that cognitive systems can be characterized by way of employing a multi-scale modular approach in which time is parametrized.
Publications :
Felipe De Brigard has published numerous articles and served as editor for several volumes.
Articles ( non-exhaustive list ) :
- De Brigard, Felipe. “Episodic memory without autonoetic consciousness.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 379, no. 1913 (November 2024): 20230410. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0410.
- Krasich, Kristina, Marty G. Woldorff, Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Liad Mudrik. “Prestimulus alpha phase, not only power, modulates conscious perception. Comment on “Beyond task response-Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Zhang.” Phys Life Rev 50 (September 2024): 123–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.07.006.
- O’Neill, Kevin, Paul Henne, John Pearson, and Felipe De Brigard. “Modeling confidence in causal judgments.” J Exp Psychol Gen 153, no. 8 (August 2024): 2142–59. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001615.
- Huang, Shenyang, Felipe De Brigard, Roberto Cabeza, and Simon W. Davis. “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI.” Phys Life Rev 49 (July 2024): 139–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.04.012.
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