I found the essay reasonably supportive of the neuroscience
investigations. The questions he raises would be great to investigate.
Neuroscience
research like this has great potential in resolving many of the Nature v
Nurture controversies. The one thing about fMRI research that makes it
different from most psychology research is that it is empirically driven
and not influenced by the expectations of the researcher or the subjects.
In this way, the field is similar to studies of obesity. The pattern I
get from the scanner is the pattern I have to live with.
The major reservation I have with the field is publication bias. The
investigators jump all the hurdles to get a study with positive findings
published.
With negative findings, they tend to move on to the next study and
neglect to publish the negative findings.
Mike Williams
On 7/13/14 2:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest
wrote:
Subject: For Haters Of Neuroscience...
From: "Mike Palij"<[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:28:20 -0400
X-Message-Number: 2
And you know who you are. The NY Times has an opinion piece
by NYU's Gary Marcus titled "The Trouble With Brain Science"
which goes into some of the difficulties that recent initiatives
(e.g., the EU's "Brain Initiative") have since we don't seem to
have the basic questions right; see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/opinion/the-trouble-with-brain-science.html?emc=edit_th_20140712&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=389166&_r=0
NOTE: No dead salmon were involved.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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