After Phrenology

Will we ever understand the brain?
by Michael Anderson, Ph.D.

Brain Injury Study Points to Integrative Nature of Intelligence

In a study of 182 patients with focal brain injuries, Dr. Aron Barbey and colleagues use a simple but elegant method known as voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping to identify the many regions of the brain that are causally related to general intelligence. Read More

How Not to Do Personality Neuroscience: Brain Structure and The Big Five

The 2010 publication of "Testing predictions from personality neuroscience: Brain structure and the big five" marked the beginning of a small personal test of the "just let it die" neuroscience-without-criticism approach to bad ideas. Just over a year and 46 citations in many prominent journals later, I think we can safely say the results are in. It's time to be critical. Read More

Can Listening to the Beatles Reverse Aging?

In science, as in life, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Read More

MIT Scientists Declare There Is No Science of Brains!

If individual differences trump general principles, then things look dim for neuroscience. Read More

Is Our Brain as Good as It Gets?

How the laws of physics may keep us from getting any smarter than we already are. Read More

What Psychology Tells Us About the Brain and Vice Versa Part I: An Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience 2.0

A new way to look at brain images leads to a new way to look at the brain. Read More

The Dynamic Brain

The brain is constantly dancing to its own inner music. What does that tell us about how the brain works? Read More

Michael Anderson, Ph.D.

Michael Anderson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College.

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