Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Political neuroscience/reply (3)

Media reporting on neuroscience is generally god-awful. Journalists can't be bothered to understand that many brain structures a, are often responsible for more than one thing, and b, may themselves have substructures to which specific functions are localized. Oh yeah, and all differences in scans are "hard-wired" (that phrase needs to be banned from the papers until journos can learn to use it correctly). Just as bad as "the x gene" in all the genetics articles. Also, two of my favorite MRI related studies:
 * Dead salmon can understand human emotion.
 * Neurobabble is bad for your brain.

Re: ASL, here's one.