Mace, Caitlin (2025) Function Ascription Practices in Circuit Interventions. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
Novel tools have allowed researchers to intervene into circuits at the mesoscale. The results of these interventions are often explained by appeal to functions. How are functions ascribed to circuit parts experimentally? I identify two kinds of function ascription practices in circuit interventions. Analysis of these practices shows us that function ascriptions are challenging due to a lack of interventive control and insufficient constraints on the class of candidate functions to discriminate in practice. One kind of function ascription practice—subtractive analysis—fares better at addressing these challenges.
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| Keywords: | neuroscience, scientific practice, functions, neural circuits | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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| Depositing User: | Catilin Mace | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2025 13:11 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2025 13:11 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 25171 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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| Date: | 14 April 2025 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25171 |
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