Beyond constituency tests: A reply to Osborne

Beyond Functional Architecture in Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Reply to

We (Patterson & Plaut, 2009) argued that cognitive neuropsychology has had a limited impact on cognitive science due to a nearly exclusive reliance on (a) single-case studies, (b) dissociations in cognitive performance, and (c) shallow, box-and-arrow theorizing, and we advocated adopting a case-series methodology, considering associations as well as dissociations, and employing explicit computa...

Beyond the New Deal: Reply

Thomas Burr Osborne

Reply to Fowler and Montanges ( 2015 ) : Discussion of Auxiliary Tests

This memo discusses five auxiliary tests reported by Fowler and Montanges (henceforth FM). FM argue that the results of these tests suggest that the findings reported in Healy, Malhotra, and Mo (henceforth HMM) represent a false positive. We were only permitted 500 words to craft a response to FM within PNAS itself. Consequently, we discuss the auxiliary tests in this memo. All five tests are p...

On Words, Tests, and Applications: Reply to Faith et al

Faith et al. (2003) strongly criticize our paper (Posadas et al. 2001). Their criticisms are based on what they consider our “ill definitions” and “erroneous applications” of the words complementarity, endemism, and biodiversity. The objectives of our reply to Faith et al. are to demonstrate that their criticisms do not satisfy epistemological and methodological tenets and to compare some aspec...