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In this paper, psychology is considered as a biological science within the context of the information sciences. Connectionist arguments about the computational architecture of the brain based on biological and/or computational plausibility are rejected. Following Hebb (1958), it is argued that analyses based on biological and/or computational plausibility may serve to tune a psychological model, but that behavioural accuracy must be the main arbiter of any psychological model.
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Mewhort, D.J.K. Alice in Wonderland, or psychology among the information sciences. Psychol. Res 52, 158–162 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877524
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