Stara dobra etnografia laboratorium. (Papiamento)

Good old-fashioned ethnography of laboratory. (English)

Handling Digital Brains proves that ethnography of the laboratory is still ca-pable of making a significant contribution in the field of social studies on sci-ence and technology. The reviewed work presents details of interactions be-tween researchers, as well as between researchers and their material equip-ment, which are key to explaining the methods of solving research problems when analyzing brain scans generated during fMRI experiments. Significant-ly, the reconstructed multimodal embodied practices shed light not only on the process of scientific cognition, but also on a broader spectrum of human cognitive activities. The book constitutes a challenge of a kind to neurocogni-tive sciences. As the author shows, cognitive neuroscientists utilizing fMRI declare that they study the embodied mind; yet, in practice, they reduce the body to the brain, and cognition - to purely internal processes. Such a model of cognition, (tacitly) assumed by experimental neurocognitive scientists, turns out to be insufficient when used reflexively in order to explain the way neuroscientists themselves solve problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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