Prospective thinking; scenario planning meets neuroscience

Pedagogy meets neuroscience.

H aving acknowledged the social and economic value of education, modern societies are increasingly making concerted efforts to improve schooling at all age levels. Today, policy-makers and practitioners responsible for educational reform and improving classroom practice seek to base their decisions on empirical evidence rather than on opinions, fashions, and ideologies, as was too often the cas...

Machine Intelligence Meets Neuroscience

W hen I was finishing high school in the early 1970s, the closest normal people got to computers was using a teletype. These electromechan-ical monsters could convert bits received at glacially slow (110 baud) telephone rates into a veritable caco-phany of sound. This acoustic din was produced by lots of metal parts slamming into a paper roll somewhere inside the machine. The paper was the same...

Redux-Neuroscience Meets Pedagogy

Critical neuroscience meets medical humanities.

This programmatic theory paper sketches a conceptual framework that might inspire work in critical Medical Humanities. For this purpose, Kaushik Sunder Rajan's account of biocapital is revisited and discussed in relation to the perspective of a critical neuroscience. Critical neuroscience is an encompassing positioning towards the recent public prominence of the brain and brain-related practice...

Visual Neuroscience: Retinotopy Meets Percept-otopy?

In the mammalian brain, the primary visual cortex forms a systematic spatial map of the visual field. A new study suggests that the representations on this map are affected by visual illusions that alter perceived size. Spatial patterns of activity may thus reflect perceived size.