Research

My current research has two main threads. The first focuses on how mental phenomena relate to variables tracked and manipulated by neuroscientists during experiments. I see this as a narrower formulation of the classic mind-body problem but no less puzzling. The second thread of my research concentrates on the epistemology of cognitive science and neuroscience.

Publications

Crummy, E., Chamberlain, B., Gamboa, J.P., Pierson, J., & Ahmari, S. (2025). “Persistent Threat Avoidance Following Negative Reinforcement Is Not Associated with Elevated State Anxiety”, Journal of Neuroscience, 45(2): e0815242024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0815-24.2024.

Gamboa, J.P. (2024). “On Cognitive Modeling and Other Minds”, Philosophy of Science, 91(3): 615-633. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.168. Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22901.

Khalifa, K., Islam, F., Gamboa, J.P., Wilkenfeld D., & Kostić, D. (2022). “Integrating Philosophy of Understanding with the Cognitive Sciences”, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16:764708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.764708

Gamboa, J.P. (2020). “Goltz against cerebral localization: Methodology and experimental practices”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C, 84: 101304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101304