2016
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00129
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Cognitive Neuroscience and Causal Inference: Implications for Psychiatry

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate to what extent it is justified to draw conclusions about causal relations between brain states and mental states from cognitive neuroscience studies. We first explain the views of two prominent proponents of the interventionist account of causation: Woodward and Baumgartner. We then discuss the implications of their views in the context of traditional cognitive neuroscience studies in which the effect of changes in mental state on changes in brain states is investigated. After thi… Show more

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“…However, they are not different in kind. Explanatory power does not inform new practices, because neuroscientific evidence is meaningful only in its correlative relation to existing psychological concepts (Dijkstra & de Bruin, 2016).…”
Section: Clarifying the Support-inform Distinctionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, they are not different in kind. Explanatory power does not inform new practices, because neuroscientific evidence is meaningful only in its correlative relation to existing psychological concepts (Dijkstra & de Bruin, 2016).…”
Section: Clarifying the Support-inform Distinctionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Neuroscience has already applied manipulation methods with imaging techniques (Wagner et al, 2007 ; Bestmann and Feredoes, 2013 ), for example, TMS with fMRI (Bestmann et al, 2008 ; Ruff et al, 2009 ; Siebner et al, 2009 ) and optogenetics with fMRI (Lin et al, 2016 ). With regard to methodological improvement, the manipulation approach is expected to be useful for solving the issue of causality (Dijkstra and de Bruin, 2016 ). For example, manipulation tests can rule out the correlational error in Figure 2B .…”
Section: Brain-manipulation Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…He held that as a result, we cannot draw conclusions about the causal relation between mental states and brain states. In his reply to Baumgartner (2009) , Woodward (2015) proposed to adjust these intervention criteria in order to make room for supervenience relations and to secure causal claims for cognitive neuroscience investigations (see Dijkstra and De Bruin, 2016 ). (The interventionist theory of causality is roughly that C causes E if and only if an intervention on C would bring about a change in E .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The relation between mental events and brain events ( Kim, 1998 , 2011 ) is also important in psychiatry ( Dijkstra and De Bruin, 2016 ). For example, we may find that functional connectivities between some brain areas are different in schizophrenia and depression, and are correlated with the symptoms ( Rolls et al, 2020 ; Rolls, 2021a ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%