The Newness
This page contains audio segments under the theme of 'newness,' which refers to discussions about the newness of neuroscience (as a field and its methods) and how such newness influences the perceptions or uptake of brain findings across the university.
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- Themes: newness macro-micro hype funding divide multiplicity
The Newness
Audio Segments with Description
Jack Gallant
1. Dr. Jack Gallant discusses why humanities people use neuroscience and suggests that the new data provided by neuroscience offers a new way to tackle ancient problems long researched in the humanities. But he sees the possibility for gaps between the types of problems that researchers from various disciplines might want to explore.
Marco Iacoboni
1. Dr. Marco Iacobani examines how people are beginning to use new neuroscience findings to validate human practices but have a tendency to jump on even the smallest correlation between research and theory.
Gregory Hickok
1. Dr. Gregory Hickok touches on how the “simplicity” of neuroscience findings and their ability to seemingly explain human behavior results in a new popularity of the field. Note: this segment non-exclusively coded also as 'Hype.'
Larry Cahill
1. Dr. Larry Cahill suggests we don't know much about how the brain works. Thus, big knowledge claims about the brain are, in some ways, by necessity, leaps.