itre.cis.upenn.edu
[This is a guest post by Martha Farah , also posted at the Neuroethics and Law Blog . Some other comments on the same topic can be found here .]
This morning's New York Times Op Ed page presents us with dazzling pictures, from the lab of Marco Iacoboni, of the brains of swing voters as they react to photos and videos of the leading presidential candidates. Accompanying these pictures are interpretations of the patterns of brain activation offered by Iacoboni and his collaborators. Mitt Romney evokes anxiety -- this is deduced from amygdala activation.
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econlog.econlib.org
If you want to publish obvious results, it really helps to scan some brains first. Case in point: "This is Your Brain on Politics," an op-ed in Sunday's NYT : In anticipation of the 2008 presidential election, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to watch the brains of a group of swing voters as they responded to the leading presidential candidates. Our results reveal some voter impressions on which this election may well turn. Voter impressions on which this election may well turn include the shocking findings that:
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concurringopinions.com
Yesterday's New York Times had an op-ed describing brain imaging results that purportedly "reveal some voter impressions on which [the 2008 Presidential] election may well turn." In fact, however, there's quite a bit of skepticism about the interpretation and meaningfulness of these results. Of course, lots of people watch hours and hours of speculative television news commentary that is no more scientific. Yet the talking heads, except perhaps when they present survey data, do not purport to offer scientific analyses the way the "scanning heads" do.
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wickedstageact2.typepad.com
Some Sunday morning reading to share. The FCC is heading towards more regulation for the cable industry, aiming towards opening up the market. This is a back pedal of sorts in the era of de-regulation. Possible results include slowing down Comcast's growth. Via The New York Times . You kind of knew something like this was coming when the Democrats grabbed control of Congress. Legislation is now pending that would require colleges and universities to police piracy or lose Federal funding. Bribery works.
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democraticcentral.com
Someone with ready access to a functional MRI machine analyzed the reactions of various undecided voters to the 2008 Presidential candidates. And it's fascinating. http://www.nytimes.c...
The functional MRI analyzes what parts of the brain are active, on a real-time basis. If the part of the brain that responds when one is afraid is active on listening to Adolf Hitler, for example, that tells us something. If the part of the brain that is associated with confusion is active when listening to
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kolber.typepad.com
This morning's New York Times Op Ed page presents us with dazzling pictures, from the lab of Marco Iacoboni, of the brains of swing voters as they react to photos and videos of the leading presidential candidates.
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donklephant.com
NY Times has an interesting story about how the Dem, Repub and Indy brain respond to different candidates and their message.
The biggest news surrounds Hillary…
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incertus.blogspot.com
In short, it's the best science reading going. In today's New York Times, a team of seven brainiacs scanned the brains of 20 people who said they were open to voting for a Democrat or a Republican in next year's election. Some of the results ( read it all by clicking ici ):
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kendallian.blogspot.com
A group of research scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging to read the brains of 20 swing voters as they watch presidential campaign videos. The most surprising thing to me was not the original negative feelings toward Giuliiani by the women, but the positive feelings after seeing and hearing him. On the other hand, the men experienced the same negative, then positive feelings toward Hillary. Hillary and Rudy seemed to draw the strongest responses.
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neurosciencemarketing.com
These were among eight conclusions of a brain scan study described in an New York Times Op-Ed piece, This Is Your Brain on Politics , credited to Marco Iacoboni, Joshua Freedman and Jonas Kaplan of the University of California, Los Angeles, Semel Institute for Neuroscience; Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania; and Tom Freedman, Bill Knapp and Kathryn Fitzgerald of FKF Applied Research. The details involved in reaching each conclusion may be more interesting than the seemingly bland summaries.
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brainethics.wordpress.com
Martha Farah just alerted me about her recent comment in the Neuroethics & Law blog . Yesterday, NY Times ran a story about neuro-politics. More precisely, they presented a study of how subjects' brains' responded to, e.g., different political words and pictures of US politicians involved in the 2008 presidental election . The article's first author is
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headsuptheblog.blogspot.com
Now have a look at today's Breakfast Experiment over at the Log, which takes a couple of healthy whacks in passing at Sunday's nearly-full-page " Your Brain on Politics " tale in the NYT. In particular: It's irresponsible to take the responses of 10 medical students (or whatever) recruited at UCLA as a proxy for the reactions of 55 million male or 55 million female U.S. voters. Their conclusions might be true, or they might not be, but the fact that some of their evidence comes from high-tech brain-imaging machines doesn't make the results any more likely to generalize to American voters as a whole than if they asked for a show of hands in their Introduction to Neuroscience class.
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