Toys are us: Models and Metaphors in Brain Research

Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 111-133

  Borck, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain as a writing apparatus, a symbolic machine; Brain research, metaphors and models; Brain tissue's insensitivity to pain; Electric excitability of brain; Metaphorical explanation of brains, as machines; Mind and body, a changing "mirror of machines"; Penfield's electrode, triggering reactions; Penfield's functional topography of cortex; Tape recorder and electrode; Toys are us, models and metaphors in brain research

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EID: 84885492858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343359.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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