The Visual Culture of Brain Imaging

Hausken, Liv
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2015
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http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-48430

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1198389

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Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. 2015, 48 (1), 68-69, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00899
Abstract
Brain images are believed to be physical explanations for cognitive phenomena. However, the persuasive power of brain imaging cannot be fully explained by the general tendency to biologise the mind in contemporary cognitive sciences. It needs to be understood in relation to histories of imaging techniques, of mediated forms and of their social and cultural discourses.

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