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Cognitive Neuroethology: An Approach to Understanding Biological Neural Networks

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What are the prospects for understanding mental events using the tools of experimental neurobiology? This essay considers the techniques currently available for determining neural state in an intact, behaving animal, progress in correlating neural and mental states, and prospects for predicting mental states from neural and behavioral state. The essay also outlines a research approach to this problem: cognitive neuroethology, that is, the study of the neural basis of cognitive behaviors performed by an animal in its natural environment. The essay suggests that this approach may prove fruitful for the study of the neural basis of mental states.

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