title: Neither a mentalist nor a reductionist be!
abstract: There is basis for concern that applied psychophysiology, if not the field of biofeedback, is being coopted by, and merged into, a reborn "inner" model, with the return of "cognition" to preeminence in the "psych" and "neuro" disciplines. Despite currently fashionable views that such mentalistic inventions and neuro/psychological developments somehow illuminate behavior or offer simpler accounts of behavioral facts, there is little or no evidence that any such construction has ever told us anything new about behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Brady
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011603:Psychophysiology / Q000639:trends*