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neuroreductionism

noun

Etymology

From neuro- + reductionism.

  1. derived from reductio
  2. derived from reducion
  3. inherited from reduccion
  4. suffixed as reductionism — “reduction + ism”
  5. prefixed as neuroreductionism — “neuro- + reductionism”

Definitions

  1. A form of reductionism which explains psychological phenomena in terms of neuroscience.

    • It is the central dogma of one careful type of neuroreductionism that such a reduction will eventually be possible for all psychological concepts and theories.
    • Neuroreductionism is a methodology aimed at explanation of complex nervous systems by analysis of relations between levels of organization, and explanation of each level of organization in terms of simpler constituents.
    • Neurophysiologists failed to find any evidence for such fields of electrical activity in the brain, and so tended to dismiss Gestalt theory in general rather than Köhler's unsuccessful attempt at neuroreductionism in particular.

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