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William R. Uttal: Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience

MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011, xxviii+497, $49.50, ISBN 978-0-262-01596-7

Author: Fernand Gobet

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 2/2014

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The relation between mind and brain is one of the big scientific questions that has attracted scientists’ attention for centuries but also eluded their understanding. In this book, William Uttal provides a critical review of cognitive neuroscience, focusing on a specific question: What do the brain-imaging techniques developed in the last two decades or so—mostly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET)—tell us about the brain-mind problem? His unambiguous and abrasive answer is: nothing. …

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Title: William R. Uttal: Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011, xxviii+497, $49.50, ISBN 978-0-262-01596-7
Author: Fernand Gobet
Publication date: 01-05-2014
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Minds and Machines / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-013-9335-1

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