David L Barack, Ph.D.

Papers

Philosophy

Books

      Edited:

  1. Rowbottom DP, Curtis-Trudel A, and Barack DL. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies. Forthcoming, Routledge.

Journal Articles

Reviewed:

  1. Pohl S, Walker EY, Barack DL, Lee J, Denison RN, Block N, Meyniel F, and Ma WJ. “Desiderata of evidence for representation in neuroscience”. 2026. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, v27, p. 357-372. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-026-01030-8
  2. Barack DL. “The Multiple Action Account of Filling a Role”. 2025. Philosophical Studies, v182(8), p. 2297-2312.
  3. Barack DL. “Theory change in cognitive neurobiology: the case of the orbitofrontal cortex”. 2025. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 16:e70003, p. 1-12.
  4. Barack DL. “Context and Neural Function”. 2025. Philosophy of Science, v92, p. 185-203.
  5. Barack DL. “Rational Dynamics in Efficient Inquiry”. 2025. Analysis, v85(3), p. 649-658.
  6. Barack DL. “What is Foraging?” 2024. Biology and Philosophy,v39. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-024-09939-z
  7. Barack DL. “The Dynamicist Landscape”. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2023. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tops.12699?domain=author&token=BJGWWYENFMBRSMYBMWJS
  8. Barack DL and Krakauer J. “Two Views on the Cognitive Brain”. 2021. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-021-00448-6
  9. Barack DL. “Mental Kinematics”. 2021. Synthese, v199, p. 1091-1123. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-020-02766-1
  10. Barack DL and Jaegle A. “Codes, Functions, and Causes”. 2019. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/codes-functions-and-causes-a-critique-of-brettes-conceptual-analysis-of-coding/917AFE6FA4850F278AE8D93E28B6BB92
  11. Barack DL. “Mental Machines”. 2019. Biology and Philosophy, v34(63). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-019-9719-6
  12. Barack DL. “Cognitive Recycling”. 2019. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, v70(1), p. 239–268. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axx024

Invited:

  1. Flanagan OJ and Barack DL. “Neuroexistentialism”. 2010. EurAmerica, v40(3), p. 1–18.

Manuscripts:

  1. Barack DL and Jaegle A. “Extended Intelligence”. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07449.

Chapters

  1. Barack DL. “Perils and Prospects of NeuroAI”. In Rowbottom et al. ed. Forthcoming.

Book Reviews

  1. Barack DL. “The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment by John Bickle, Carl F Craver and Ann-Sophie Barwich”. 2022. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Neuroscience

Journal Articles

Reviewed:

  1. Barack DL, Ludwig VU, Parodi F, Ahmed N, Brannon EM, Ramakrishnan A, and Platt ML. “Attention Deficits Linked with Proclivity to Explore while Foraging”. 2024. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v291(2017), p. 1-13. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2584
  2. Walker EY, Pohl S, Denison RN, Barack DL, Lee J, Block N, Ma WJ, and Meyniel F. “Studying the Neural Representations of Uncertainty”. 2023. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01444-y
  3. Kay K, Bonnen K, Denison RN, Arcaro MJ, and Barack DL. “Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience”. 2023. Neuron. https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00218-0
  4. Barack DL, Bakkour A, Shohamy D, and Salzman CD. “Signatures of visuospatial information foraging during learning of complex environments”. 2023. Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-27662-9.pdf
  5. Barack DL, Miller EK, Moore CI, Packer AM, Pessoa L, Ross LN, and Rust NC. “A call for more clarity around causality in neuroscience”. 2022. Trends in Neurosciences. https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(22)00121-7
  6. Barack DL and Krakauer J. “Two Views on the Cognitive Brain”. 2021. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-021-00448-6
  7. Barack DL and Platt ML. “Neuronal activity in the posterior cingulate cortex signals environmental information and predicts behavioral variability during routine foraging”. 2021. Journal of Neuroscience, v41(12), p. 2703-2712. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/12/2703.abstract
  8. Barack DL, Chang SWC, and Platt ML. “Posterior cingulate neurons dynamically signal decisions to disengage during foraging”. 2017. Neuron, v96(2), p. 339-347. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627317309170
  9. Addicott MA, Pearson JM, Sweitzer MM, Barack DL, and Platt ML. “A primer on foraging and the explore/exploit trade-off for psychiatry research”. 2017. Neuropsychopharmacology, v42, p. 1931-1939. https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017108
  10. Barack DL and Platt ML. “Neurocomputational Nosology: Malfunctions of Models and Mechanisms”. 2016. Frontiers in Psychology, v7(602), p. 1–9. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00602/full
  11. Barack DL and Gold JI. “Temporal Trade-offs in Psychophysics”. 2016. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, v37, p.121–125. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438816300010
  12. Chang SWC, Barack DL, and Platt ML. “Mechanistic Classification of Neural Circuit Dysfunctions: Insights from Neuroeconomics Research in Animals”. 2012. Biological Psychiatry, v72, p. 101-106. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322312001448
  13. Pearson JM, Heilbronner SR, Barack DL, Hayden BY, and Platt ML. “Posterior Cingulate Cortex: Adapting Behavior to a Changing World”. 2011. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, v15(4), p. 143–151. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661311000180

Invited:

  1. Wise TB, Barack DL, and Templer VL. “Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory”. 2022. Learning and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00541-5

Chapters

  1. Barack DL and Platt ML. “Engaging and Exploring: Cortical Circuits for Adaptive Foraging Decisions”. 2017. In J.R. Stevens (ed.), Impulsivity, p. 163-199. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51721-6_6
  2. Harris JA, Barack DL, McMahon AR, Mitroff SR, & Woldorff MG. “Object-Category Processing, Perceptual Awareness, and the Role of Attention during Motion-Induced Blindness”. 2014. In G. R. Mangun (ed.), Cognitive Electrophysiology of Attention: Signals of the Mind, p. 97–106.