TY - JOUR
T1 - Plastic neuroscience
T2 - Studying what the brain cares about
AU - Dumit, Joseph
PY - 2014/4/23
Y1 - 2014/4/23
N2 - Drawing on Allan Newell's "You can't play 20 questions with nature and win," this article proposes that neuroscience needs to go beyond binary hypothesis testing and design experiments that follow what neurons care about. Examples from Lettvin et. al. are used to demonstrate that one can experimentally play with neurons and generate surprising results. In this manner, brains are not confused with persons, rather, persons are understood to do things with their brains.
AB - Drawing on Allan Newell's "You can't play 20 questions with nature and win," this article proposes that neuroscience needs to go beyond binary hypothesis testing and design experiments that follow what neurons care about. Examples from Lettvin et. al. are used to demonstrate that one can experimentally play with neurons and generate surprising results. In this manner, brains are not confused with persons, rather, persons are understood to do things with their brains.
KW - Cognitive neuroscience
KW - Critical neuroscience
KW - Experimental design
KW - History of neuroscience
KW - Plasticity
KW - Play
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899148897&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00176
DO - 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00176
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84899148897
SN - 1662-5161
VL - 8
JO - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
JF - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
IS - 1 APR
M1 - 176
ER -