Some forty years ago, Hilary Putnam offered the speculative empirical hypothesis that psychological states are multiply realized in brain states. With the subsequent explosive growth in neuroscientific research, it is only natural that philosophers have begun to examine Putnam's empirical speculation in the light of this research. 1 To meet the restrictions of a short conference presentation, I...

On March 7-8, 2008, cognitive and imaging neuroscientists from the Americas held a workshop in Havana, Cuba, to launch the Latin American Brain Mapping Network (LABMAN); a project allied to the International Organization for Human Brain Mapping established in 1993. The LABMAN initiative is intended to formalize disparate collaborative threads into a Latin American network via exchange of softwa...

Background. Pioneering research of Tomatis led to the introduction of the Audio-Psycho-Phonology (APP), to treat, improve, or remediate severely neurologically impaired individual. Method. Here we present for the first time independent data on the APP method with auditive evoked potentials and electroencephalographically based brain mapping. Results. The improvement of these 4 patients by under...

With the ever-increasing number of studies in human functional brain mapping, an abundance of data has been generated that is ready to be synthesized and modeled on a large scale. The BrainMap database archives peak coordinates from published neuroimaging studies, along with the corresponding metadata that summarize the experimental design. BrainMap was designed to facilitate quantitative meta-...

The human brain is a formidably complex network, the seat of cognition and consciousness and many other remarkable features, including the capacities of growth, self-organisation, reorganisation and the ability to recover from significant damage. This combined dynamic capability is known as plasticity. Considerable neuro-reorganisation is a feature of the brain commonly thought to be restricted...

Brain–computer interfacing has been applied in a range of domains including rehabilitation, neuro-prosthetics, and neurofeedback. Neuroimaging techniques provide insight into the structural functional aspects brain. There is need to identify, map understand various areas brain together with their functionally active roles for accurate efficient design brain–computer interface. In this review, a...

Introduction The level set method using implicit representation has recently been developed and shown to be capable of matching all types of geometric objects. The method was evaluated in this study for its ability to perform brain surface warping subject to landmark curve constraints. This key step in brain mapping allows multiple subjects’ data to be compared after adjusting for gyral differe...