Biophysical models of the prefrontal cortex neuronal architecture suggest that sustained D1 activation (tonic dopamine) helps establish and maintain the stability of neural networks by preventing uncontrolled, spontaneous switches into high activity states (i.e., spontaneous activation of task-irrelevant representations) [ 66].
The lack of top-down control in younger children may result in greater activation of irrelevant phonological representations in superior temporal cortex.
Our finding of increased activation in left IFG and simultaneous decreased activation in left STG (see Discussion above) indicates developmental increases in top-down control which may result in reduced activation of irrelevant phonological representations in posterior cortex, and is consistent with a previous study in English (Bitan, Cheon, et al. 2007).
Our results suggest that individuals with frequent nightmares are impaired in executive tasks involving the suppression of task-irrelevant semantic representations.
Moreover, causal claims made on behalf of alleles are utterly dependent on hierarchically identified and established interactors as causes, thus undermining their claims that the units of selection (interactor) debates are mere "quibbles" and are irrelevant to the representation of selection processes.
In her (1989) Millikan maintains that the production of mental representations is irrelevant to their contents.
But the point here is that even if Millikan is right that representational status is determined by use (as it is, in part, on Dretske's proposal) it does not follow that the the production of representations is irrelevant to determining their content (as it is not on Dretske's proposal).
Hence, each belief base is seen as a set of models and the syntactic representation is irrelevant.
In the current study, the hardwired event schemata of experts could actually lead to a stronger bias if the ball contact is considered irrelevant information in the representation of the event.
The methodology directly deals with the highly redundant and irrelevant data contained in these representations, combining a first stage of irrelevant data removal by variable selection, with a second stage of redundancy reduction using methods based on linear transformations.
Cohen's interpretation of Kant is thus robustly anti-psychologistic: he thinks any consideration of how the human mind operates to produce representations is completely irrelevant to a philosophical theory of knowledge.
