On a lark, I googled the phrase “cognitive neuroscience of religion”. I’m not really sure what I expected to find; maybe a few press articles on Michael Persinger’s “God machine” (a fancy name for TMS applied over the temporal lobes). As it turns out, Google returns only 3 hits for the phrase, which surprised me, […]
Archive for the 'neuroimaging' Category
The cognitive neuroscience of religion vs. religion in cognitive neuroscience
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16 July 2006 |
23:54 |
general, neuroimaging, musings |
2 Comments »
V1 isn’t just for seeing
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6 July 2006 |
22:41 |
fmri, neuroimaging, research articles |
2 Comments »
The latest issue of Neuron has a fantastic article on visual attention from Maurizio Corbetta’s group at Washington University in St. Louis. In it, Jack and colleagues report finding a novel signal in V1 independent of other, relatively well-characterized signals.
V1 is the primary visual cortex–essentially, the first cortical stop for incoming visual information. The traditional […]
The latest issue of Neuron has a fantastic article on visual attention from Maurizio Corbetta’s group at Washington University in St. Louis. In it, Jack and colleagues report finding a novel signal in V1 independent of other, relatively well-characterized signals.
V1 is the primary visual cortex–essentially, the first cortical stop for incoming visual information. The traditional […]
Neurons, blood flow, and their intimate relationship
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28 June 2006 |
16:27 |
neuroimaging |
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As a tangential follow-up the Bloom article and my post yesterday, Jonah Lehrer has a post today noting that Bloom failed to discuss the technical limitations of fMRI as another factor that should curb people’s enthusiasm for neuroimaging. While fMRI certainly has important technical limitations people should be aware of (low spatial and temporal resolution, […]
As a tangential follow-up the Bloom article and my post yesterday, Jonah Lehrer has a post today noting that Bloom failed to discuss the technical limitations of fMRI as another factor that should curb people’s enthusiasm for neuroimaging. While fMRI certainly has important technical limitations people should be aware of (low spatial and temporal resolution, […]
An unnecessary defense of neuroimaging (comment on Paul Bloom)
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27 June 2006 |
20:03 |
neuroimaging |
6 Comments »
Paul Bloom has an article in Seed today lamenting the sway brain imaging research holds over the public and media compared compared to other less-feted areas of psychology. The response in the blogosphere has been passively favorable, so I thought I’d try to provide a spirited defense of the opposite view. I should […]
Paul Bloom has an article in Seed today lamenting the sway brain imaging research holds over the public and media compared compared to other less-feted areas of psychology. The response in the blogosphere has been passively favorable, so I thought I’d try to provide a spirited defense of the opposite view. I should […]