ABSTRACT
Over the last century, the predominant research model for science, including naturalistically oriented social sciences and psychology, was physics, which enjoyed undeniable success. At present, however, biology is broadly considered a point of reference for research in cognitive processes. This change is significant as research in physics focusing on general regularities of the physical world inherently excludes the human mind from its investigations. For a long time, this approach has been responsible for perceiving the mind as mysterious and difficult to grasp scientifically (Pinker 1999). On the other hand, all attempts to naturalize mental reality in the physicalist spirit could provoke justified anxiety of antinaturalists opposing this “objectivist” approach (Trzopek 2006). This situation
CONTENTS
1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................3 1.2 Contemporary Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience: New Perspectives ..............7 1.3 Traditional Cognitivism and the Computer Metaphor of Cognitive Processes ...........8
