Rather, he argued, one should start with questions that inspire experimental tasks in ways that take advantage of the strengths of neuroimaging techniques. Although Kosslyn (1999) was reflecting on work done mainly since the early 1990s, his question remains as topical as ever. Over fifteen years later, and after considerable hype and groping, the neurodisciplines show evident signs of methodological and theoretical refinement. At the same time, we must still ask whether the assumptions and approaches of the neuroX are suitable for the goals, questions, and objects they define for themselves. The answer, as our case studies suggest, is that they are not.
Stephen Kosslyn is a psychologist, neuroscientist and an educator. He specialises in the fields of c...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.