An Amicable Discussion About Psychology and Neuroscience

DiscussionsThe role of semantic information in reading aloudMax Coltheart vs Mark Seidenberg2012: Panel DiscussionsWhat is the role of the insula in speech and language?Nina F. Dronkers vs Julius FridrikssonThis one-on-one format has been very rare at CNS. Last year we saw a panel of four prominent neuroscientist address/debate...Big Theory versus Big Data: What Will Solve the Big Problems in Cognitive Neuroscience?.@gallantlab" This debate is silly "#CNS2018pic.twitter.com/cpT7tKI0xa— CNS News (@CogNeuroNews)March 24, 2018Added-value entertainment was provided byDr. Gary Marcus, which speaks to the issue of combative personalities dominating the scene.4Gary Marcus talking over Jack Gallant. Eve Marder is out of the frame.image by@CogNeuroNewsI ' m old enough to remember the most volatile debate in CNS history, which was held (sadly) at the New York Marriott World Trade Center Hotel in 2001.Dr. Nancy Kanwisher andDr. Isabel Gauthier debated whether face recognition (and activation of thefusiform face area) is a ' special ' example of domain specificity (and perhaps an innate ability), or a manifestation of plasticity due to our exceptional expertise at recognizing faces:A Face-Off on Brain Studies / How we recognize people and objects is a matter of debate. . .At the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting in Manhattan last week, a panel of scientists on both sides of the debate presented their arguments. On one side is Nancy Kanwisher of MIT, who first proposed that the fus...

Source: The Neurocritic - March 30, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs