tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post117942166041694687..comments2024-03-14T23:52:09.893-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Phrenology, Then and NowThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-32954970106942814062013-11-29T07:08:41.638-08:002013-11-29T07:08:41.638-08:00I'm a psychology undergrad and I just wanted t...I'm a psychology undergrad and I just wanted to say thanks! ur blog supplied me with some great point to make! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-35989226572758438742012-03-23T17:58:43.247-07:002012-03-23T17:58:43.247-07:00According to Purdue, the APA blog citation format ...According to Purdue, the APA blog citation format is:<br /><br />The Neurocritic. (2011, February 10). Phrenology, Then and Now [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2011/02/phrenology-then-and-now.html<br /><br />OR it might be:<br /><br />Neurocritic, T. Phrenology, Then and http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2011/02/phrenology-then-and-now.html<br /><br />[according to studenthacks.org]The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-80350234355116087392012-03-22T20:36:56.032-07:002012-03-22T20:36:56.032-07:00Dear Blogger,
I'm a psychology undergraduate I...Dear Blogger,<br />I'm a psychology undergraduate I'm writing a critical essay on Phrenology and I was hoping to reference your article. Could you please provide me with some more details so that I can cite your work. <br /><br />Regards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-87504238557751326942011-02-17T07:47:48.357-08:002011-02-17T07:47:48.357-08:00Seems like more prominence should be given to the ...Seems like more prominence should be given to the fact that the BOLD signal cannot be mapped in a straightforward way to neural activity. There are studies showing firing in the absence of BOLD changes, and vice versa. <br /><br />Also: have you ever looked at the methods section of an fMRI paper? The subtractions used are highly non-obvious. Assumptions about what brain regions are involved go into the subtraction, so there is an implicit model built into each brain image.Hanhttp://axispraxis.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-57506205534347635052011-02-14T04:42:39.470-08:002011-02-14T04:42:39.470-08:00Sorry for posting a comment unrelated to this arti...Sorry for posting a comment unrelated to this article, but I see no other way to contact you - everywhere on the Internet they are currently writing about this boy, Chase Britton, who lives quite normally without his cerebellum and pons:<br />http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/12/chase-britton-boy-without-a-cerebellum-baffles-doctors/<br />Of course, this great opportunity for all kinds of people to deny neuroscience/physicalism... I would be very grateful if you could comment on this?Aleksander Więckowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598906632290727794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-56906615791230943642011-02-14T04:01:50.091-08:002011-02-14T04:01:50.091-08:00Well, try getting a job at MIT without embracing a...Well, try getting a job at MIT without embracing a modular view! Nancy will set you butt on fire! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-39608529412218922602011-02-12T00:33:08.497-08:002011-02-12T00:33:08.497-08:00Hm, I found myself agreeing with KevinH, and then ...Hm, I found myself agreeing with KevinH, and then I found myself agreeing with Thor. Now I'm just going to sit back and see where it leads.<br /><br />I do think that new tech--higher resolution--could either make the tendency more pronounced or blow away all present theories of localization.<br /><br />Tara Maya<br /><a href="http://amzn.to/ew3wee" rel="nofollow">Conmergence</a>Tara Mayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095632631554776002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-36635609221593299162011-02-10T16:57:08.925-08:002011-02-10T16:57:08.925-08:00Very nice. I hadn't seen Poldrack's articl...Very nice. I hadn't seen Poldrack's article. I like it a lot. Of course, I'm kinda biased on this matter:<br /><br />http://blog.ketyov.com/2011/01/how-to-be-neuroscientist.html<br /><br />And the author of that "Neural Networks Debunk Phrenology" piece was my PhD advisor.bradley.voytek@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705565128439299346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-48910867629377877362011-02-10T11:03:25.902-08:002011-02-10T11:03:25.902-08:00Been doing fMRI for 15 years. I know lots of peopl...Been doing fMRI for 15 years. I know lots of people who believe in cognitive modules. Still. Lots. <br />Some believe they're distributed, some that they're localized to those blobs. <br /><br />In some fields, it's difficult to publish unless you take a partially modularist view. For example in visual perception, people have to run some so-called functional localizers approach or risk getting attacked at review stage for showing random blobs which may or may not be this or that visual area. But the localizer approach assumes we can know and map the areas that we may be interested in a priori! Sometimes makes it difficult to do exploratory work. It's true that the visual system has specialization but I think the culture limits the way you can perform analyses (if you want to publish, which of course you do!). <br />There may be sub-fields where the opposite is the culture, I don't know... But how we conceptualize neuroimaging affects the kinds of questions we can productively ask so it's not an inert issue by any means.Thornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-3999948969036285352011-02-10T10:11:45.615-08:002011-02-10T10:11:45.615-08:00The whole fMRI vs Phrenology thing is so rediculou...The whole fMRI vs Phrenology thing is so rediculous. One is based on real, observer independent, significant data, and the other was based on random noise.<br /><br />Similarity of goals is not a valid way to compare fields of knowledge. Are you willing to say that modern medacine is just as valid as homeopathy because they have similar goals? That psychology is equivalent to astrology? That intellegent design is equivalent to evolution?<br /><br />It is methods, and data which separate the wheat from the chaff, not motivation or aim.<br /><br />If what you are trying to say is that fMRI needs to move away from more descriptive studies to direct tests of hypothesis, then I'd fully support you. However, nothing is gained by trying to bias people against a valid scientific method by tying it to a ridiculous farce in the history of science.KevinHnoreply@blogger.com