A simple footprint
Dec 02, 2019
What kind of sign is a rhinoceros footprint? It is an index, an iconic representation, and can become a symbolic image. A whole world condensed into a single footprint.
Etiqueta: neuroscience
Will we someday have cinema with smells?
Sep 30, 2019
A principis del segle XX, va començar a sorgir la idea d’un «cinema amb olors». Malgrat els nombrosos intents de portar els olors a les pel·lícules, aquests no van acabar de funcionar perquè la mida de les sales provocava que les olors es perderen o no donaren efecte al moment desitjat.
Neurons: more is not better
Mar 14, 2019
For a correct functioning of the brain, it is essential that the number of neurons is the appropriate one: neither more nor less.
¿The unbreakable illusion? Neuroscience and free will
Aug 13, 2018
Mr. Smith is an exemplary citizen: a caring father, a loving husband and a respected doctor, always eager to help fellow humans.
The scam of pseudoscience, under Mètode’s magnifying glass
Dec 14, 2017
«Pseudosciences are by-products of the prestige of science as a social enterprise and as a means of obtaining knowledge. Their character is inherently negative, given that, by definition, a pseudoscience is an intellectual fraud». Thus begins monograph 95 of Mètode, coordinated by Angelo Fasce.
The neuroscience of rationality
Sep 28, 2017
We live in an age of contradictions. It might well be the age we land on Mars, rule over our own DNA, or fuse two atoms to recreate a star. Alas, it is also the age of Trump, climate change denial, or the spending of millions of euros on pseudociences such as homeopathy.
Unravelling science
Jul 04, 2017
Mètode Science Studies Journal publishes the 2017 annual review, under the title Unravelling science. The seventh issue of this English language publication focuses on the secrets of neuroscience, the connection between science and ideology, science from a gender perspective, and twenty-first century astrophysics and cosmology,
The role of the brain in financial decisions
Jun 13, 2017
How do decision-making processes affect brain activity? What role do emotions play on finances?
Rudolf Nieuwenhuys
Jun 13, 2016
Rudolf Nieuwenhuys is a worldwide eminence in the field of Neuroanatomy. He has a formal education as a medical doctor, but his view is not at all anthropocentric and he has always been fascinated by the great diversity of forms found in the brain of
From metaphor to action
Jun 13, 2016
Review of the latest contributions to embodied cognition theories that provide a new approach to human cognition.
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