Editors' Introduction to Networks of the Mind: How Can Network Science Elucidate Our Understanding of Cognition?. (1st February 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kenett, Yoed N.; Hills, Thomas T.
• Is Part Of: Topics in cognitive science. Volume 14:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 53
• Publication Date: 2022-02-01
• Subjects: Cognitive networks -- Mind -- Memory -- Network science; Cognitive science -- Periodicals; Cognitive Science -- Periodicals; 153.05
• DOI: 10.1111/tops.12598
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1756-8757

Abstract

Abstract: Thinking is complex. Over the years, several types of methods and paradigms have developed across the psychological, cognitive, and neural sciences to study such complexity. A rapidly growing multidisciplinary quantitative field of network science offers quantitative methods to represent complex systems as networks, or graphs, and study the network properties of these systems. While the application of network science to study the brain has greatly advanced our understanding of the brains structure and function, the application of these tools to study cognition has been done to a much lesser account. This topic is a collection of papers that discuss the fruitfulness of applying network science to study cognition across a wide scope of research areas from generalist accounts of memory and encoding, to individual differences, to communities, and finally to cultural and individual change.