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1. The State of Documentation Practices of Third-party Machine Learning Models and Datasets

Author

Oreamuno, Ernesto Lang, Khan, Rohan Faiyaz, Bangash, Abdul Ali, Stinson, Catherine, and Adams, Bram

Subjects
Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Machine Learning
Abstract

Model stores offer third-party ML models and datasets for easy project integration, minimizing coding efforts. One might hope to find detailed specifications of these models and datasets in the documentation, leveraging documentation standards such as model and dataset cards. In this study, we use statistical analysis and hybrid card sorting to assess the state of the practice of documenting model cards and dataset cards in one of the largest model stores in use today--Hugging Face (HF). Our findings show that only 21,902 models (39.62\%) and 1,925 datasets (28.48\%) have documentation. Furthermore, we observe inconsistency in ethics and transparency-related documentation for ML models and datasets., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, IEEESoftware format

Published
2023
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2. Collaboration or Corporate Capture? Quantifying NLP's Reliance on Industry Artifacts and Contributions

Author

Aitken, Will, Abdalla, Mohamed, Rudie, Karen, and Stinson, Catherine

Subjects
Computer Science - Computation and Language
Abstract

Impressive performance of pre-trained models has garnered public attention and made news headlines in recent years. Almost always, these models are produced by or in collaboration with industry. Using them is critical for competing on natural language processing (NLP) benchmarks and correspondingly to stay relevant in NLP research. We surveyed 100 papers published at EMNLP 2022 to determine the degree to which researchers rely on industry models, other artifacts, and contributions to publish in prestigious NLP venues and found that the ratio of their citation is at least three times greater than what would be expected. Our work serves as a scaffold to enable future researchers to more accurately address whether: 1) Collaboration with industry is still collaboration in the absence of an alternative or 2) if NLP inquiry has been captured by the motivations and research direction of private corporations., Comment: ACL 2024 Main Conference

Published
2023

3. Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Author

Srivastava, Aarohi, Rastogi, Abhinav, Rao, Abhishek, Shoeb, Abu Awal Md, Abid, Abubakar, Fisch, Adam, Brown, Adam R., Santoro, Adam, Gupta, Aditya, Garriga-Alonso, Adrià, Kluska, Agnieszka, Lewkowycz, Aitor, Agarwal, Akshat, Power, Alethea, Ray, Alex, Warstadt, Alex, Kocurek, Alexander W., Safaya, Ali, Tazarv, Ali, Xiang, Alice, Parrish, Alicia, Nie, Allen, Hussain, Aman, Askell, Amanda, Dsouza, Amanda, Slone, Ambrose, Rahane, Ameet, Iyer, Anantharaman S., Andreassen, Anders, Madotto, Andrea, Santilli, Andrea, Stuhlmüller, Andreas, Dai, Andrew, La, Andrew, Lampinen, Andrew, Zou, Andy, Jiang, Angela, Chen, Angelica, Vuong, Anh, Gupta, Animesh, Gottardi, Anna, Norelli, Antonio, Venkatesh, Anu, Gholamidavoodi, Arash, Tabassum, Arfa, Menezes, Arul, Kirubarajan, Arun, Mullokandov, Asher, Sabharwal, Ashish, Herrick, Austin, Efrat, Avia, Erdem, Aykut, Karakaş, Ayla, Roberts, B. Ryan, Loe, Bao Sheng, Zoph, Barret, Bojanowski, Bartłomiej, Özyurt, Batuhan, Hedayatnia, Behnam, Neyshabur, Behnam, Inden, Benjamin, Stein, Benno, Ekmekci, Berk, Lin, Bill Yuchen, Howald, Blake, Orinion, Bryan, Diao, Cameron, Dour, Cameron, Stinson, Catherine, Argueta, Cedrick, Ramírez, César Ferri, Singh, Chandan, Rathkopf, Charles, Meng, Chenlin, Baral, Chitta, Wu, Chiyu, Callison-Burch, Chris, Waites, Chris, Voigt, Christian, Manning, Christopher D., Potts, Christopher, Ramirez, Cindy, Rivera, Clara E., Siro, Clemencia, Raffel, Colin, Ashcraft, Courtney, Garbacea, Cristina, Sileo, Damien, Garrette, Dan, Hendrycks, Dan, Kilman, Dan, Roth, Dan, Freeman, Daniel, Khashabi, Daniel, Levy, Daniel, González, Daniel Moseguí, Perszyk, Danielle, Hernandez, Danny, Chen, Danqi, Ippolito, Daphne, Gilboa, Dar, Dohan, David, Drakard, David, Jurgens, David, Datta, Debajyoti, Ganguli, Deep, Emelin, Denis, Kleyko, Denis, Yuret, Deniz, Chen, Derek, Tam, Derek, Hupkes, Dieuwke, Misra, Diganta, Buzan, Dilyar, Mollo, Dimitri Coelho, Yang, Diyi, Lee, Dong-Ho, Schrader, Dylan, Shutova, Ekaterina, Cubuk, Ekin Dogus, Segal, Elad, Hagerman, Eleanor, Barnes, Elizabeth, Donoway, Elizabeth, Pavlick, Ellie, Rodola, Emanuele, Lam, Emma, Chu, Eric, Tang, Eric, Erdem, Erkut, Chang, Ernie, Chi, Ethan A., Dyer, Ethan, Jerzak, Ethan, Kim, Ethan, Manyasi, Eunice Engefu, Zheltonozhskii, Evgenii, Xia, Fanyue, Siar, Fatemeh, Martínez-Plumed, Fernando, Happé, Francesca, Chollet, Francois, Rong, Frieda, Mishra, Gaurav, Winata, Genta Indra, de Melo, Gerard, Kruszewski, Germán, Parascandolo, Giambattista, Mariani, Giorgio, Wang, Gloria, Jaimovitch-López, Gonzalo, Betz, Gregor, Gur-Ari, Guy, Galijasevic, Hana, Kim, Hannah, Rashkin, Hannah, Hajishirzi, Hannaneh, Mehta, Harsh, Bogar, Hayden, Shevlin, Henry, Schütze, Hinrich, Yakura, Hiromu, Zhang, Hongming, Wong, Hugh Mee, Ng, Ian, Noble, Isaac, Jumelet, Jaap, Geissinger, Jack, Kernion, Jackson, Hilton, Jacob, Lee, Jaehoon, Fisac, Jaime Fernández, Simon, James B., Koppel, James, Zheng, James, Zou, James, Kocoń, Jan, Thompson, Jana, Wingfield, Janelle, Kaplan, Jared, Radom, Jarema, Sohl-Dickstein, Jascha, Phang, Jason, Wei, Jason, Yosinski, Jason, Novikova, Jekaterina, Bosscher, Jelle, Marsh, Jennifer, Kim, Jeremy, Taal, Jeroen, Engel, Jesse, Alabi, Jesujoba, Xu, Jiacheng, Song, Jiaming, Tang, Jillian, Waweru, Joan, Burden, John, Miller, John, Balis, John U., Batchelder, Jonathan, Berant, Jonathan, Frohberg, Jörg, Rozen, Jos, Hernandez-Orallo, Jose, Boudeman, Joseph, Guerr, Joseph, Jones, Joseph, Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Rule, Joshua S., Chua, Joyce, Kanclerz, Kamil, Livescu, Karen, Krauth, Karl, Gopalakrishnan, Karthik, Ignatyeva, Katerina, Markert, Katja, Dhole, Kaustubh D., Gimpel, Kevin, Omondi, Kevin, Mathewson, Kory, Chiafullo, Kristen, Shkaruta, Ksenia, Shridhar, Kumar, McDonell, Kyle, Richardson, Kyle, Reynolds, Laria, Gao, Leo, Zhang, Li, Dugan, Liam, Qin, Lianhui, Contreras-Ochando, Lidia, Morency, Louis-Philippe, Moschella, Luca, Lam, Lucas, Noble, Lucy, Schmidt, Ludwig, He, Luheng, Colón, Luis Oliveros, Metz, Luke, Şenel, Lütfi Kerem, Bosma, Maarten, Sap, Maarten, ter Hoeve, Maartje, Farooqi, Maheen, Faruqui, Manaal, Mazeika, Mantas, Baturan, Marco, Marelli, Marco, Maru, Marco, Quintana, Maria Jose Ramírez, Tolkiehn, Marie, Giulianelli, Mario, Lewis, Martha, Potthast, Martin, Leavitt, Matthew L., Hagen, Matthias, Schubert, Mátyás, Baitemirova, Medina Orduna, Arnaud, Melody, McElrath, Melvin, Yee, Michael A., Cohen, Michael, Gu, Michael, Ivanitskiy, Michael, Starritt, Michael, Strube, Michael, Swędrowski, Michał, Bevilacqua, Michele, Yasunaga, Michihiro, Kale, Mihir, Cain, Mike, Xu, Mimee, Suzgun, Mirac, Walker, Mitch, Tiwari, Mo, Bansal, Mohit, Aminnaseri, Moin, Geva, Mor, Gheini, Mozhdeh, T, Mukund Varma, Peng, Nanyun, Chi, Nathan A., Lee, Nayeon, Krakover, Neta Gur-Ari, Cameron, Nicholas, Roberts, Nicholas, Doiron, Nick, Martinez, Nicole, Nangia, Nikita, Deckers, Niklas, Muennighoff, Niklas, Keskar, Nitish Shirish, Iyer, Niveditha S., Constant, Noah, Fiedel, Noah, Wen, Nuan, Zhang, Oliver, Agha, Omar, Elbaghdadi, Omar, Levy, Omer, Evans, Owain, Casares, Pablo Antonio Moreno, Doshi, Parth, Fung, Pascale, Liang, Paul Pu, Vicol, Paul, Alipoormolabashi, Pegah, Liao, Peiyuan, Liang, Percy, Chang, Peter, Eckersley, Peter, Htut, Phu Mon, Hwang, Pinyu, Miłkowski, Piotr, Patil, Piyush, Pezeshkpour, Pouya, Oli, Priti, Mei, Qiaozhu, Lyu, Qing, Chen, Qinlang, Banjade, Rabin, Rudolph, Rachel Etta, Gabriel, Raefer, Habacker, Rahel, Risco, Ramon, Millière, Raphaël, Garg, Rhythm, Barnes, Richard, Saurous, Rif A., Arakawa, Riku, Raymaekers, Robbe, Frank, Robert, Sikand, Rohan, Novak, Roman, Sitelew, Roman, LeBras, Ronan, Liu, Rosanne, Jacobs, Rowan, Zhang, Rui, Salakhutdinov, Ruslan, Chi, Ryan, Lee, Ryan, Stovall, Ryan, Teehan, Ryan, Yang, Rylan, Singh, Sahib, Mohammad, Saif M., Anand, Sajant, Dillavou, Sam, Shleifer, Sam, Wiseman, Sam, Gruetter, Samuel, Bowman, Samuel R., Schoenholz, Samuel S., Han, Sanghyun, Kwatra, Sanjeev, Rous, Sarah A., Ghazarian, Sarik, Ghosh, Sayan, Casey, Sean, Bischoff, Sebastian, Gehrmann, Sebastian, Schuster, Sebastian, Sadeghi, Sepideh, Hamdan, Shadi, Zhou, Sharon, Srivastava, Shashank, Shi, Sherry, Singh, Shikhar, Asaadi, Shima, Gu, Shixiang Shane, Pachchigar, Shubh, Toshniwal, Shubham, Upadhyay, Shyam, Shyamolima, Debnath, Shakeri, Siamak, Thormeyer, Simon, Melzi, Simone, Reddy, Siva, Makini, Sneha Priscilla, Lee, Soo-Hwan, Torene, Spencer, Hatwar, Sriharsha, Dehaene, Stanislas, Divic, Stefan, Ermon, Stefano, Biderman, Stella, Lin, Stephanie, Prasad, Stephen, Piantadosi, Steven T., Shieber, Stuart M., Misherghi, Summer, Kiritchenko, Svetlana, Mishra, Swaroop, Linzen, Tal, Schuster, Tal, Li, Tao, Yu, Tao, Ali, Tariq, Hashimoto, Tatsu, Wu, Te-Lin, Desbordes, Théo, Rothschild, Theodore, Phan, Thomas, Wang, Tianle, Nkinyili, Tiberius, Schick, Timo, Kornev, Timofei, Tunduny, Titus, Gerstenberg, Tobias, Chang, Trenton, Neeraj, Trishala, Khot, Tushar, Shultz, Tyler, Shaham, Uri, Misra, Vedant, Demberg, Vera, Nyamai, Victoria, Raunak, Vikas, Ramasesh, Vinay, Prabhu, Vinay Uday, Padmakumar, Vishakh, Srikumar, Vivek, Fedus, William, Saunders, William, Zhang, William, Vossen, Wout, Ren, Xiang, Tong, Xiaoyu, Zhao, Xinran, Wu, Xinyi, Shen, Xudong, Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah, Lakretz, Yair, Song, Yangqiu, Bahri, Yasaman, Choi, Yejin, Yang, Yichi, Hao, Yiding, Chen, Yifu, Belinkov, Yonatan, Hou, Yu, Hou, Yufang, Bai, Yuntao, Seid, Zachary, Zhao, Zhuoye, Wang, Zijian, Wang, Zijie J., Wang, Zirui, and Wu, Ziyi

Subjects
Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computers and Society, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Statistics - Machine Learning
Abstract

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabilities are as yet poorly characterized. In order to inform future research, prepare for disruptive new model capabilities, and ameliorate socially harmful effects, it is vital that we understand the present and near-future capabilities and limitations of language models. To address this challenge, we introduce the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark (BIG-bench). BIG-bench currently consists of 204 tasks, contributed by 450 authors across 132 institutions. Task topics are diverse, drawing problems from linguistics, childhood development, math, common-sense reasoning, biology, physics, social bias, software development, and beyond. BIG-bench focuses on tasks that are believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models. We evaluate the behavior of OpenAI's GPT models, Google-internal dense transformer architectures, and Switch-style sparse transformers on BIG-bench, across model sizes spanning millions to hundreds of billions of parameters. In addition, a team of human expert raters performed all tasks in order to provide a strong baseline. Findings include: model performance and calibration both improve with scale, but are poor in absolute terms (and when compared with rater performance); performance is remarkably similar across model classes, though with benefits from sparsity; tasks that improve gradually and predictably commonly involve a large knowledge or memorization component, whereas tasks that exhibit "breakthrough" behavior at a critical scale often involve multiple steps or components, or brittle metrics; social bias typically increases with scale in settings with ambiguous context, but this can be improved with prompting., Comment: 27 pages, 17 figures + references and appendices, repo: https://github.com/google/BIG-bench

Published
2022

4. Revisiting Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness

Author

Neophytou, Nicola, Mitra, Bhaskar, and Stinson, Catherine

Subjects
Computer Science - Information Retrieval, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Machine Learning
Abstract

Recommendation algorithms are susceptible to popularity bias: a tendency to recommend popular items even when they fail to meet user needs. A related issue is that the recommendation quality can vary by demographic groups. Marginalized groups or groups that are under-represented in the training data may receive less relevant recommendations from these algorithms compared to others. In a recent study, Ekstrand et al. investigate how recommender performance varies according to popularity and demographics, and find statistically significant differences in recommendation utility between binary genders on two datasets, and significant effects based on age on one dataset. Here we reproduce those results and extend them with additional analyses. We find statistically significant differences in recommender performance by both age and gender. We observe that recommendation utility steadily degrades for older users, and is lower for women than men. We also find that the utility is higher for users from countries with more representation in the dataset. In addition, we find that total usage and the popularity of consumed content are strong predictors of recommender performance and also vary significantly across demographic groups.

Published
2021

5. Algorithms are not neutral: Bias in collaborative filtering

Author

Stinson, Catherine

Subjects
Computer Science - Computers and Society, Computer Science - Machine Learning
Abstract

Discussions of algorithmic bias tend to focus on examples where either the data or the people building the algorithms are biased. This gives the impression that clean data and good intentions could eliminate bias. The neutrality of the algorithms themselves is defended by prominent Artificial Intelligence researchers. However, algorithms are not neutral. In addition to biased data and biased algorithm makers, AI algorithms themselves can be biased. This is illustrated with the example of collaborative filtering, which is known to suffer from popularity, and homogenizing biases. Iterative information filtering algorithms in general create a selection bias in the course of learning from user responses to documents that the algorithm recommended. These are not merely biases in the statistical sense; these statistical biases can cause discriminatory outcomes. Data points on the margins of distributions of human data tend to correspond to marginalized people. Popularity and homogenizing biases have the effect of further marginalizing the already marginal. This source of bias warrants serious attention given the ubiquity of algorithmic decision-making.

Published
2021

7. Revisiting Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness

Author

Neophytou, Nicola, Mitra, Bhaskar, Stinson, Catherine, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Hagen, Matthias, editor, Verberne, Suzan, editor, Macdonald, Craig, editor, Seifert, Christin, editor, Balog, Krisztian, editor, Nørvåg, Kjetil, editor, and Setty, Vinay, editor

Published
2022
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13. THE WARRIORS: They're fighting forest fires, converting communities to solar power, reinventing how we grow our crops and cramming their annual waste into just three Mason jars. Meet the inspiring women at the forefront of the climate change battle

Author

Hune-Brown, Nicholas, Landau, Emily, McBride, Jason, and Stinson, Catherine

Subjects
Climate change -- Forecasts and trends, Environmental management, Working women -- Aims and objectives, Solar energy, Medical societies, Women, Agricultural industry, Emergency medical services, Green technology, Global temperature changes, Forest fires, Forest fire control, Physicians, Hospital emergency services, Market trend/market analysis, Women's issues/gender studies
Abstract

The Yellowknife ER doctor alarmed by the health impact of climate change WHILE LARGE PARTS of southern Canada are feeling the effects of climate change--unchecked forest fires, once-in-a-century storms that [...]

Published
2019

14. TOUGH LOVE: Women are hitting, smashing and barrelling through contact sports like never before. Drawn to the thrill and camaraderie, they're finding that consensual violence is its own kind of therapy

Author

Stinson, Catherine

Subjects
Women's sports -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects -- Methods, Roller derby -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects, Sports injuries, Violence, Rugby football, Roller skates, Market trend/market analysis, Women's issues/gender studies
Abstract

I guess you could say I have a funny relationship with pain. On Wednesday and Friday nights--and sometimes on weekends--I get together with friends at Hogtown Roller Derby and we [...]

Published
2019

20. Conceptual Combinations - Benchmark Task for BIG-Bench

Author

Coelho Mollo, Dimitri, Millière, Raphael, Rathkopf, Charles, Stinson, Catherine, Coelho Mollo, Dimitri, Millière, Raphael, Rathkopf, Charles, and Stinson, Catherine

Abstract

This is a task accepted in July 2021 as part of Google’s “Beyond the Imitation Game collaborative benchmark for measuring and extrapolating the capabilities of language models”. It is published at https://github.com/google/BIG-bench/tree/main/bigbench/benchmark_tasks/conceptual_combinations. Links to the collection of queries are below, followed by the ReadMe file that explains the task, its justification, and its performance with existing AI language models.

Published
2021

22. From Implausible Artificial Neurons to Idealized Cognitive Models: Rebooting Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Author

Stinson, Catherine and Stinson, Catherine

Abstract

There is a vast literature within philosophy of mind that focuses on artificial intelligence, but hardly mentions methodological questions. There is also a growing body of work in philosophy of science about modeling methodology that hardly mentions examples from cognitive science. Here these discussions are connected. Insights developed in the philosophy of science literature about the importance of idealization provide a way of understanding the neural implausibility of connectionist networks. Insights from neurocognitive science illuminate how relevant similarities between models and targets are picked out, how modeling inferences are justified, and the metaphysical status of models.

Published
2019

24. THE WARRIORS.

Author

HUNE-BROWN, NICHOLAS, LANDAU, EMILY, MCBRIDE, JASON, and STINSON, CATHERINE

Subjects
CLIMATE change mitigation
Abstract

The article reports on the contributions of several women in the climate change mitigation including emergency room (ER) doctor Courtney Howard, First Nations Chief Patricia Faries, and millennial Catherine Gauthier.

Published
2019

25. TOUGH LOVE.

Author

STINSON, CATHERINE

Subjects
CONTACT sports, WOMEN'S attitudes
Abstract

The article reports on the engagement of women in contact sports.

Published
2019

27. Owning an overweight or underweight body:distinguishing the physical, experienced and virtual body

Author

Piryankova, Iveline, Wong, Hong Yu, Linkenauger, Sally, Stinson, Catherine, Longo, Matthew, Buelthoff, H. H., Mohler, B. J., Piryankova, Iveline, Wong, Hong Yu, Linkenauger, Sally, Stinson, Catherine, Longo, Matthew, Buelthoff, H. H., and Mohler, B. J.

Abstract

Our bodies are the most intimately familiar objects we encounter in our perceptual environment. Virtual reality provides a unique method to allow us to experience having a very different body from our own, thereby providing a valuable method to explore the plasticity of body representation. In this paper, we show that women can experience ownership over a whole virtual body that is considerably smaller or larger than their physical body. In order to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying body ownership, we use an embodiment questionnaire, and introduce two new behavioral response measures: an affordance estimation task (indirect measure of body size) and a body size estimation task (direct measure of body size). Interestingly, after viewing the virtual body from first person perspective, both the affordance and the body size estimation tasks indicate a change in the perception of the size of the participant's experienced body. The change is biased by the size of the virtual body (overweight or underweight). Another novel aspect of our study is that we distinguish between the physical, experienced and virtual bodies, by asking participants to provide affordance and body size estimations for each of the three bodies separately. This methodological point is important for virtual reality experiments investigating body ownership of a virtual body, because it offers a better understanding of which cues (e.g. visual, proprioceptive, memory, or a combination thereof) influence body perception, and whether the impact of these cues can vary between different setups.

Published
2014

28. Owning an overweight or underweight body : distinguishing the physical, experienced and virtual body

Author

Piryankova, Iveline, Wong, Hong Yu, Linkenauger, Sally, Stinson, Catherine, Longo, Matthew, Buelthoff, H. H., Mohler, B. J., Piryankova, Iveline, Wong, Hong Yu, Linkenauger, Sally, Stinson, Catherine, Longo, Matthew, Buelthoff, H. H., and Mohler, B. J.

Abstract

Our bodies are the most intimately familiar objects we encounter in our perceptual environment. Virtual reality provides a unique method to allow us to experience having a very different body from our own, thereby providing a valuable method to explore the plasticity of body representation. In this paper, we show that women can experience ownership over a whole virtual body that is considerably smaller or larger than their physical body. In order to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying body ownership, we use an embodiment questionnaire, and introduce two new behavioral response measures: an affordance estimation task (indirect measure of body size) and a body size estimation task (direct measure of body size). Interestingly, after viewing the virtual body from first person perspective, both the affordance and the body size estimation tasks indicate a change in the perception of the size of the participant's experienced body. The change is biased by the size of the virtual body (overweight or underweight). Another novel aspect of our study is that we distinguish between the physical, experienced and virtual bodies, by asking participants to provide affordance and body size estimations for each of the three bodies separately. This methodological point is important for virtual reality experiments investigating body ownership of a virtual body, because it offers a better understanding of which cues (e.g. visual, proprioceptive, memory, or a combination thereof) influence body perception, and whether the impact of these cues can vary between different setups.

Published
2014

30. Cognitive Mechanisms and Computational Models: Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience

Author

Stinson, Catherine E and Stinson, Catherine E

Abstract

Cognitive Neuroscience seeks to integrate cognitive psychology and neuroscience. I critique existing analyses of this integration project, and offer my own account of how it ought to be understood given the practices of researchers in these fields. A recent proposal suggests that integration between cognitive psychology and neuroscience can be achieved `seamlessly' via mechanistic explanation. Cognitive models are elliptical mechanism sketches, according to this proposal. This proposal glosses over several difficulties concerning the practice of cognitive psychology and the nature of cognitive models, however. Although psychology's information-processing models superficially resemble mechanism sketches, they in fact systematically include and exclude different kinds of information. I distinguish two kinds of information-processing model, neither of which specifies the entities and activities characteristic of mechanistic models, even sketchily. Furthermore, theory development in psychology does not involve the filling in of these missing details, but rather refinement of the sorts of models they start out as. I contrast the development of psychology's attention filter models with the development of neurobiology's models of sodium channel filtering. I argue that extending the account of mechanisms to include what I define as generic mechanisms provides a more promising route towards integration. Generic mechanisms are the in-the-world counterparts to abstract types. They thus have causal-explanatory powers which are shared by all the tokens that instantiate that type. This not only provides a way for generalizations to factor into mechanistic explanations, which allows for the `upward-looking' explanations needed for integrating cognitive models, but also solves some internal problems in the mechanism literature concerning schemas and explanatory relevance. I illustrate how generic mechanisms are discovered and used with examples from computational cognitive neurosci

Published
2013

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