Growing concerns about commercial uses of fMRI (brain scans)

It would seem that the concerns depicted in our previous post are widespread indeed! The last issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, published by the MIT Press, is just out. Martha Farah introduces it with an editorial, basically a two-page warning. Abstract: Unrealistic, financially motivated claims about functional brain imaging can have a negative [...]

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Neuroeconomics – Hype or Hope?

The conference organized by the EIPE in the Arminius Centre, Rotterdam was well attended – about 40 people in the audience for each of the 3 days. Speakers where mainly philosophers, and the audience was a mix of economists, philosophers, and neuroeconomists. So, hype or hope? Speakers and members of the audience seemed to make [...]

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