期刊
BRAIN AND COGNITION
卷 112, 期 -, 页码 3-12出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2016.02.003
关键词
Anhedonia; Dopamine; Explanation; Explanatory pluralism; Free energy; Incentive salience; Predictive processing; Reduction; Reward prediction error; Unification
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) , priority program New Frameworks of Rationality [SPP 1516]
Courtesy of its free energy formulation, the hierarchical predictive processing theory of the brain (PTB) is often claimed to be a grand unifying theory. To test this claim, we examine a central case: activity of mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic (DA) systems. After reviewing the three most prominent hypotheses of DA activity the anhedonia, incentive salience, and reward prediction error hypotheses we conclude that the evidence currently vindicates explanatory pluralism. This vindication implies that the grand unifying claims of advocates of PTB are unwarranted. More generally, we suggest that the form of scientific progress in the cognitive sciences is unlikely to be a single overarching grand unifying theory. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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