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Human performance is unambiguously reducible to brain activity
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CONTESTED
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Whether human performance can be fully reduced to brain activity remains heavily debated, with neuroimaging and computational models highlighting strong brain-behavior links, while philosophical and systems-level frameworks argue that cognition encompasses embodied, environmental, and cultural factors.

Evidence for · 2
Predictive models avoid excessive reductionism in cognitive neuroimaging.
2019 · cited by 69
Predictive models successfully bridge behavior and neural activity to generalize brain-mind associations.
Evidence against · 3
A synergetic turn in cognitive neuroscience of brain diseases
2024 · cited by 53
A synergetics framework highlights the necessity of incorporating body-environment interactions rather than looking at the brain in isolation.
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Evaluating Cognitive Function and Brain Activity Patterns via Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent Transformer in N-Back Working Memory Tasks
2025 · cited by 2
Transformers and fMRI analysis demonstrate that brain activation patterns can effectively evaluate working memory tasks and cognitive performance.
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Quantifying What Is Efficacious Yet Not Observable: Cognitive Neuroscience's Measurement Problem Has a Solution.
2026 · cited by 1
Intentional mental efficacy cannot be fully reduced to sub-personal neural quantities without losing its purpose-driven character.
Scientism, Philosophy and Brain-Based Learning
2013 · cited by 1
Identifying the person solely with their brain is an oversimplified reductionist view, as learning and behavior are embodied and cultural.
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