Empirical neuroethics. Can brain imaging visualize human thought? Why is neuroethics interested in such a possibility?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Illes, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOETHICS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSCIENCE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NEUROBIOLOGY; THINKING;

EID: 34548349455     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401007     Document Type: Article

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