Thank you, Luiz!!

This paper is the latest in a project I'm working on, where I try to show that tasks and task norms (which define what counts as "correct" task performance) play an indispensable role in shaping psychological and neuroscientific explanation. (5/5)

Using retinal edge detection and frontal sound localisation as case studies, I argue that a neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs when it satisfies all the constraints on competent task performance (even if there is no shared computational structure). (4/x)

In a series of papers, Shagrir and Bechtel argue that a neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs when they share the same computational structure. (3/x)

My paper starts with David Marr's insight that even if we had a complete description of a neural mechanism, we would still need an explanation for how that neural mechanism is *appropriate* to the task it performs. (2/x)