{"id":677424,"date":"2010-02-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/e0774203e15ff30deb35fdfa9964c37b"},"modified":"2010-02-25T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:00:00","slug":"area-responsible-for-neuroscience-errors-located","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677424","title":{"rendered":"Area responsible for neuroscience errors located"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/quinn_brainshutoff.jpg?resize=277%2C240\" width=\"277\" height=\"240\" \/>I liked this funny and recursive brain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinn\/4252155172\/\">diagram<\/a> from tech journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quinn_Norton\">Quinn Norton<\/a> that makes fun of our tendency to be wowed by brain scans.<\/p>\n<p>The diagram has a good evidence base. A 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17803985\">study<\/a> found that adding a picture of a brain scan to a scientific argument about human nature made the general public more likely to be believe it even if brain activity wasn&#8217;t relevant to the point being made.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18004955\">study<\/a> published in the same year found that simply adding an irrelevant sentence about the brain had a similar effect.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Norton has now located the brain area responsible for our problem with understanding bogus neuroscience explanations.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinn\/4252155172\/\">Link<\/a> to recursive brain diagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this funny and recursive brain diagram from tech journalist Quinn Norton that makes fun of our tendency to be wowed by brain scans. The diagram has a good evidence base. A 2008 study found that adding a picture of a brain scan to a scientific argument about human nature made the general public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}