Beyond neurocentrism: situating cognition within the metabolic demands of the whole organism.

Authors

Francesca Starita, Giorgio Li Pira, Giuseppe Di Pellegrino

Published in

The Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 49. Pages e479. Oct 02, 2026. Epub Oct 02, 2026.

Abstract

We reorient Haueis and Colaço's metabolic framework of cognitive modeling by drawing on neuroscientific evidence from animal motor control, reinforcement learning, and decision-making to show that cognition emerged to serve the metabolic demands of the whole organism, rather than those of the brain alone. We also illustrate the generative value of our reframing to model cognition in artificial systems.

PMID:
42825770
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 02 Oct 2026.

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