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neuroscientific

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  • adjective Pertaining to neuroscience.

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Examples

  • 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 2009

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

    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011

  • 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 2010

  • 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.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • 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 m_francis 2009

  • 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.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • 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.

    Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

  • 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.

    Think motherhood turns your brain to mush? Think again | Gaby Hinsliff 2011

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

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Diagnosing the 'Personhood' Problem: It's in Your Brain Jonathan D. Moreno 2011

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

    Why parents shouldn't feel guilty if they can't devote time to their toddlers 2011

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