I have been to quite a few lectures this summer in Woods Hole that purported to be studying how the brain works by taking on the subject of 'memory' and 'synaptic plasticity', along with brain 'regions'. Along with being hopelessly vague, this contains the reductionist fallacy of projecting an abstraction into an anatomical distinction.
My point really is that we can do better at considering cognitive functions. Consider a couple of experiments:
Experiment #1: You try to find anatomic changes corresponding to someone making a plan that combines an image with a linguistic pattern.
Experiment #2: You touch someone on the leg, then ask them to touch the same place.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment