Cognition by synchronization

Building on the previous chapters, this final chapter addresses the preeminently multidisciplinary question of how human cognitive architecture might be implemented in the brain's neural architecture. Focusing on perceptual organization, this question is addressed in a pluralist way which — sustained by neuroscientific evidence and metatheoretical considerations — combines complementary insights from representational, connectionist, and dynamic systems approaches to cognition. To this end, I expand on van der Helm (2012) and I revisit several things from the previous chapters to discuss them in the light of this cognitive architecture question. Next, I briefly introduce the main ingredients.