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Towards a Cognitive Gliascience: A Brief Conceptual Framework

Salvatore Spadaro

Journal of Scientific Research and Reports · pp. 1–11 · Published 1 Sep 2015

10.9734/JSRR/2015/20247

Abstract

Recent brain studies show the emerging importance of glia (and, in particular, of astroglia) in cognitive abilities like learning and memory. A new, hypothetical area of research is described to enriching the poverty of cognitive studies on glia. This methodology has been used because of its intedisciplinarity, and in particular for a possible foundation of a computational glia-neuroscience. The point of the paper is to raise awareness about a new perspective on these brain cells.

Glia cells astroglia cognitive gliascience philosophy of mind & cognitive science computational glia-neuroscience.

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