Russell A. Poldrack Livres

"An introductory-level statistics textbook for psychology students"--

Thinking on 20 watts -- The visible mind -- fMRI grows up -- Can fMRI read minds? -- How do brains change over time? -- Crimes and lies -- Decision neuroscience -- Is mental illness just a brain disease? -- The future of neuroimaging

The ability to read minds has long been a fascination of science fiction, but revolutionary new brain-imaging methods are bringing it closer to scientific reality. The New Mind Readers provides a compelling look at the origins, development, and future of these extraordinary tools, revealing how they are increasingly being used to decode our thoughts and experiences--and how this raises sometimes troubling questions about their application in domains such as marketing, politics, and the law. Russell Poldrack takes readers on a journey of scientific discovery, telling the stories of the visionaries behind these breakthroughs. Along the way, he gives an insider's perspective on what is perhaps the single most important technology in cognitive neuroscience today--functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, which is providing astonishing new insights into the contents and workings of the mind. He highlights both the amazing power and major limitations of these techniques and describes how applications outside the lab often exceed the bounds of responsible science. Poldrack also details the unique and sometimes disorienting experience of having his own brain scanned more than a hundred times as part of a landmark study of how human brain function changes over time. Written by one of the world's leading pioneers in the field, The New Mind Readers cuts through the hype and misperceptions surrounding these emerging new methods, offering needed perspective on what they can and cannot do--and demonstrating how they can provide new answers to age-old questions about the nature of consciousness and what it means to be human. -- Inside jacket flap

"Well-publicized research in psychology tells us that over half of our attempts to change habitual behavior fail within one year. Even without reading the research, most of us will intuitively sense the truth in this, as we have all tried and failed to rid ourselves of one bad habit or another. The human story of habits and the difficulty of change has been told in many books--most of which will make only a quick reference to dopamine or the 'lizard brain' before moving on to practical tips and tricks for behavior change. In contrast, [this book] will tell the brain's story about why behavior is so hard to change"--

Czytanie w myślach od dawna fascynowało autorów powieści science-fiction, a dzięki rozwojowi technik obrazowania aktywności mózgu, staje się teraz rzeczywistością. Światowej sławy neuronaukowiec, Russell A. Poldrack przygląda się początkom technik neuroobrazowania, ich rozwojowi oraz najnowszym odkryciom naukowym, które nie byłyby możliwe bez skanerów mózgu. Opowiada o pionierach neuronauki i przełomowych wynalazkach, które doprowadziły do odkrycia najbardziej wpływowej metody badania mózgu i umysłu, jaką jest funkcjonalne obrazowanie rezonansem magnetycznym (fMRI). Wybiega także w przyszłość, nakreślając perspektywy stosowania neuroobrazowania w dziedzinach takich, jak marketing, polityka, prawo czy psychiatria, a także przygląda się nadużyciom przedstawicieli własnej dziedziny nauki.