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Reading Minds - A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution (Paperback)
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Reading Minds - A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution (Paperback)
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"Many researchers live in their laboratories, and their careers and
self-esteem like most everyone s these days are built on gaining
recognition, not doing what is right. Most have never seen a
patient, a person in pain, suffering the hurt of their
circumstances someone who might shock them back into seeing what
they know to be true. Moreover, academics rarely read outside their
area of interest and often actively ignore obviously related
research if it threatens to make their work seem less special. This
struck me hard. As an idealistic graduate student, I was able to
take a course at another university with an esteemed researcher
whose work I then greatly admired. I was for a time quite thrilled.
My disillusionment came when I enthusiastically expressed the
opinion that his general conclusions were supported by the work of
another psychologist who was studying the same subject with
different methods. 'I don t know his work, ' he said, shaking his
head and grimacing with disgust. It was as if I had asked him to
taste something horrible. I guess I had.The particular path I have
chosen connects what I can of this vast new field before us in
order to better understand human nature, and especially what leads
to our self-imposed inhibitions and self-inflicted mental pain. It
offers a view from a practical perspective that addresses central
clinical questions: What keeps us from fully realizing our
capacities to understand ourselves and others, and what can be done
to change?I do not claim great expertise in research design,
statistics, or the interpretation of brain scans, but I believe I
have learned enough to exclude the merely sensational. I have
chosen not to present controversies in the interpretation of MRI
data, although I know they exist because I know we are far from the
end of the story. Some findings will remain accepted and others
will not. I have tried to present the work of reputable researchers
that has gained support, either through replication or by virtue of
fitting in with a pattern of related studies. I do not privilege
brain science over social science or from what we gather from the
clinical encounter. I believe we have to struggle to see how it all
fits in order to better understand what it means to be human."
Michael Moskowitz, from the Introduction"
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