Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27606181›Full record

ArticleThe Behavior analyst2016

Why Brains Are Not Computers, Why Behaviorism Is Not Satanism, and Why Dolphins Are Not Aquatic Apes.

Louise Barrett

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Article in The Behavior analyst, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Music Listening and Homeostatic Regulation: Surviving and Flourishing in a Sonic World.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  6. On the "Strength" of Behavior.Perspectives on behavior science · 2020
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  10. Behavior Science Emerges.Perspectives on behavior science · 2018
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  14. A psychology of the human brain-gut-microbiome axis.Social and personality psychology compass · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Louise BarrettDepartment of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, T1K 6T5 Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern psychology has, to all intents and purposes, become synonymous with cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on the idea that the brain is a form of computer, whose job is to take in sensory input, process information, and produce motor output. This places the brain at a remove from both the body and environment and denies the intimate connection that exists between them. As a result, a great injustice is done to both human and nonhuman animals: On the one hand, we fail to recognize the distinctive nature of nonhuman cognition, and on the other hand, we continue to promote a somewhat misleading view of human psychological capacities. Here, I suggest a more mutualistic, embodied, enactive view might allow us to ask more interesting questions about how animals of all kinds come to know their worlds, in ways that avoid the (inevitable) anthropocentric baggage of the cognitivist viewpoint.

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4E cognitionAnthropocentrismBehaviorComparative psychology

Identifiers

PMID27606181
PMCPMC4883503

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