Name: 15: A Tale of Two Neurons @FredCummins
Uploaded: 2025-05-05T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Here I discuss the epistemological idealizations in play in computational accounts of brains, and I contrast two kinds of neurons: one (entirely ideal) is the mirror neuron, and the other (provocative, but real) is the Von Economo or Spindle Cell Neuron.

Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

This playlist contains videos presenting lecture material for a 12 week course, COMP 20090 Introduction to Cognitive Science, taught at University College Dublin. It is taught by Dr. Fred Cummins, fredcummins.net

COMP 20090: Introduction to Cognitive Science (2021). Unit 6.5: Semantic networks

COMP 20090: Introduction to Cognitive Science (2021). Unit 9.7: Movement and brains

COMP 20090: Introduction to Cognitive Science (2021). Unit 2.8. Human Animal Communication

COMP 20090: Introduction to Cognitive Science (2021). Unit 4.5: Vision and attention

COMP 20090: Introduction to Cognitive Science (2021). Unit 7.5: EEG