neuroscientific

• “Scott Adam's experiment sounds credible only because it's cloaked in neuroscientific language.”

  Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The word "signals" jumps out: Elsewhere the author criticizes the homunculi little men, making quite difficult determinations, that pervade putative neuroscientific accounts of the mind; there is more than a hint of a homunculus in the notion of neurons that "signal" to one another.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rethinking Thinking

• “It seems that the neuroscientific and evolutionary evidence for a hard-wired but increasingly dysfunctional idea of personhood is compelling.”

  The Huffington Post: Jonathan D. Moreno: Diagnosing the 'Personhood' Problem: It's in Your Brain

• “This is a straight account of his own neuroscientific beliefs.”

  The Guardian: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review

• “On the contrary, there is a growing body of neuroscientific evidence suggesting that while surviving on two hours' sleep a night initially does little for one's ability to string a sentence together, maternity actually builds the brain up.”

  The Guardian: Think motherhood turns your brain to mush? Think again | Gaby Hinsliff

• “Many experts now argue that we simply cannot draw meaningful conclusions from the neuroscientific data available.”

  The Guardian: Why parents shouldn't feel guilty if they can't devote time to their toddlers

• “Then philosophers like Searle point out that current neuroscientific “explanations” of consciousness, etc. do not in fact explain the relevant phenomena at all.”

  September 13th, 2009

• “That an intervening level of "imagining" is involved in reading seems intuitively correct, although I guess I'd like to see some neuroscientific evidence that reading about violence is as different an experience from being confronted with it -- or its aesthetic representation -- directly in filmed images as Crain thinks it is.”

  Saying Something

• “If neuroscientific research suggests that the core meaning of a memory remains, even if its details have been lost or distorted, then if I find the right pictures, the pictures could lead me to the core.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Memory Palace

• “Despite the astonishing breakthroughs of the neuroscientific revolution, why some people are born left-handed remains a mystery.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Sigman: Why We Hate Going to the Dennis

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