Thoughts in Context Lab at @QueensU | Studying the influence of context on our thoughts & the relationship between our neural activity and cognition ๐ญ๐ง
Congratulations to the totally awesome @BridgMul10 for passing her Masters defence with flying colours, and publishing her first paper showing how the activities we perform in daily life shape our thoughts and experiences! Great stuff๐
https://t.co/ADMhlIgMSE
Thought experiment: how much could we learn about the brain purely through psychology experiments i.e. show some stimuli, record some behaviour?
No neuroscience allowed (no microscopes or brain scans).
Could we eventually work out that the brain was made up of smaller units?
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด: neuro experiments *fix context* as much as possible as per good experimental control. But if brain processes are strongly context dependent, we need to flip the strategy around or at the very least do both.
Working hypothesis: radical context dependence.