Neural networks are successfully used to imitate and model cognitive processes. However,
to provide clues about the neurobiological mechanisms enabling human cognition, these …

We organisms are sensorimotor systems. Things in the world come into contact with our
sensory surfaces, and we interact with them based on what that sensorimotor contact …

How many words—and which ones—are sufficient to define all other words? When
dictionaries are analyzed as directed graphs with links from defining words to defined words …

Learning to categorize requires distinguishing category members from non-members by
detecting the features that covary with membership. Human subjects were trained to sort …

Je tiens à remercier mon directeur de recherche, Étienne Harnad, pour son écoute et son
soutien tout au long de mon cheminement doctoral. Sa passion pour la recherche est …

The capacity to generate meaningful symbols and effectively employ them for advanced
cognitive processes, such as communication, reasoning, and planning, constitutes a …

This book aims to cover both the ontological determination and the characterization of what
we call with terms such as disease and others related. The current edition is a more …

This work is a longue durée history of neuroscientific classification practices through the lens
of handedness research, and it affirms the importance of ostensibly outmoded concepts for …

Stevan Harnad is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Université du Québec à
Montréal, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University and …

How does the brain effortlessly recognize, classify, and transform incoming sounds? My
thesis aims to tackle this question via an exploration of musical stimuli with behavioral and …