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

This is a straight account of his own neuroscientific beliefs.

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

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.

The Memory Palace

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

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

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

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

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

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