What are neural correlates neural correlates of?

Abend, Gabriel

doi:10.1057/s41292-016-0019-y

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“…By drawing attention to the connections between the inverse characterizations of functional and dysfunctional SLMP, I have sought to highlight that interdependent associations are entrenched within the uses of the concepts of mental imagery and hallucinations for pursuing independent goals. This supports the recent calls to address the conceptual challenges plaguing neuroimaging practices (Abend 2016;Poldrack and Yarkoni 2016). Indeed, further examination is required to appreciate the implications of these interdependent associations for the current uses of these concepts as tools in neuroimaging experiments.…”

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Interdependent Concepts and their Independent Uses: Mental Imagery and Hallucinations

Smith

2018

Perspectives on Science

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The scientific concepts of mental imagery and hallucinations are each used independently of the other in experiments; uses that simultaneously evoke and obscure their historical connections. To highlight one of these connections, I will begin by sketching episodes from the largely separate developmental trajectories of each concept. Considering these historical sketches side-by-side, I will argue that the independent uses of these concepts each inherited a shared set of interdependent associations. In doing so, I seek to illustrate the value of examining historical connections between mental imagery and hallucinations for studying the current uses of these two concepts in neuroimaging experiments.

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Interdependent Concepts and their Independent Uses: Mental Imagery and Hallucinations

Smith

2018

Perspectives on Science

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“…Therefore, neuroscientists are used to split the brain activity in different subsets of mental faculties, in order that far apart mental domains interact one each other (Touboul, 2012;Gazzaniga, 2013). Indeed, neuroscientific experimental procedures generally aim to assess just specific observational domains of the whole mental faculties, looking for the neural correlates of different brain activities (Dricu and Frühholz, 2016;Abend, 2016). Experimental procedures in neuroscience rely on the standpoints that the mind is a functional state of the brain and a clear subdivision among different mental faculties does exist in the cortex.…”

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“…Recent claims suggest that every cortical neuron, or group of neurons, might encompass a different brain activity. In touch with these claims, many neuro-techniques have been developed throughout the years, in order to assess brain activity at different levels of spatio-temporal observation and to evaluate the mental correlates of various nervous activities (Abend, 2016). Every brain activity and every experimental tool stands for an observational domain of the whole neuro-scientific discipline, each one assessing a specific anatomical or functional scale.…”

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Just One Brain Activity

Tozzi

2017

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The term brain activity refers to a wide range of mental faculties that can be assessed either on anatomical/functional micro-, meso-and macro-spatiotemporal scales of observation, or on intertwined levels with mutual interactions. Here we show, based on novel topological findings, how every brain activity encompassed in a given anatomical or functional level necessarily displays a counterpart in others. Different brain activities are able to scatter, collide and combine, merging, condensing and stitching together in a testable and quantifiable way. We point out how, despite their local cortical functional differences, all the mental processes, from perception to emotions, from cognition to mind wandering, may be reduced to a single, general brain activity that takes place in dimensions higher than the classical 3D plus time. In physics, the term duality refers to the case where two seemingly different systems turn out to be equivalent. Our framework permits a topological duality among different brain activities and neuro-techniques, because it holds for all the types of spatio-temporal nervous functions, independent of their cortical location, inter-and intra-level relationships, strength, magnitude and boundaries.

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“…Despite utilizing cutting edge genomic and computer technologies, however, studies like MSSNG remain absolutely dependent upon behavioral observations; a biomarker must be correlated against a behavior in order for its effect to become apparent (Abend 2017). Langlitz has explored this issue in relation to neuroscientific investigations of consciousness:…”

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From the Profound to the Mundane: Questionnaires as Emerging Technologies in Autism Genetics

Hollin

2019

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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It is widely argued that the final decades of the twentieth century saw a fundamental change, marked by terms such as biomedicalization and geneticization, within the biomedical sciences. What unites these concepts is the assertion that a vast array of emerging technologies-in genomics, bioengineering, information technology, and so forth-are transforming understandings of disease, diagnosis, therapeutics, and working practices. While clearly important, these analyses have been accused of perpetuating theoretical trends that attribute primacy to the new over the old, discontinuity over continuity, and the laboratory over the field. In this paper I show that in the case of autism the effects of genomic technologies can only be understood by simultaneously examining the role of questionnaires. Due to shortcomings in clinical diagnoses, genomic analyses could only progress once questionnaires had been developed to address a "reverse salient" within the "technological system." Furthermore, I argue that questionnaires such as the Autism Quotient have a significance that surpasses the genomic classifications they were designed to undergird. I argue that to neglect the role of mundane technologies such as questionnaires in contemporary biomedicine is to miss complexity, bifurcate old and new, and do a disservice to innovation.

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What are neural correlates neural correlates of?

Cited by 34 publications

References 118 publications

Interdependent Concepts and their Independent Uses: Mental Imagery and Hallucinations

Interdependent Concepts and their Independent Uses: Mental Imagery and Hallucinations

Just One Brain Activity

From the Profound to the Mundane: Questionnaires as Emerging Technologies in Autism Genetics

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