Avant, Vol. XIII, No. 3, https://doi.org/10.26913/avant.3202216
published under license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Filip Stawski 
Institute of Philosophy
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
filip.stawski@ukw.edu.pl
Received 29 October 2022; accepted 16 December 2022; published 31 December 2022*
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Abstract: The aim of this paper and poster is to discuss some of the problems occurring in attempts to visualize neurobiological mechanisms. According to the thesis, neurobiological, static schemas should not only depict the order of connections among individual neural structures accordingly, but they have also the potential to present more detailed information about relations within mechanisms, such as patterns of dynamic interactions, their intensity, arrangement and the size of specific components, etc. First I will introduce the problems of visualization in neuroscience, then I am going to discuss these problems with an example of the cortico-subcortical loops (C-SL) mechanism. Finally, I will show my solutions to some visualization problems and discuss the original schemas presented in the poster.
Keywords: visualization in neuroscience; cortico-subcortical loops; philosophy of neuroscience; mechanistic explanation; cognitive processes
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