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Scanning The Lifeworld: Toward A Critical Neuroscience Of Action And Interaction, Shaun Gallagher
Scanning The Lifeworld: Toward A Critical Neuroscience Of Action And Interaction, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
A recent report published in Neuron, a leading journal of neuroscience, by researchers at Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (Miyawaki et al., 2008) has been the basis for a claim that new technology able to analyze signals in the brain "can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor." Although claims made in the actual research paper were much more modest, in the media the standard, optimistic predictions were quick to come. "These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity. In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of …