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Commentary, Cognition and Behavior

Against the Epistemological Primacy of the Hardware: The Brain from Inside Out, Turned Upside Down

David Poeppel and Federico Adolfi
eNeuro 7 August 2020, 7 (4) ENEURO.0215-20.2020; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0215-20.2020
David Poeppel
1 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt 60322, Germany
2Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003
3 Max-Planck-New York University Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME), New York, NY 10003
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https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0215-20.2020
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32769167
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History 
  • Received May 26, 2020
  • Accepted May 26, 2020
  • Published online August 7, 2020.
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Copyright © 2020 Poeppel and Adolfi This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. David Poeppel1,2,3,^ and
  2. Federico Adolfi1,^
  1. 1 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt 60322, Germany
  2. 2Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003
  3. 3 Max-Planck-New York University Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME), New York, NY 10003
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to David Poeppel at david.poeppel{at}nyu.edu
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  1. ↵^ D.P. and F.A. contributed equally to this work.

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  • See companion Editorial https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0314-20.2020 and Opinion https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0069-20.2020.

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  • Max Planck Society

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