[lbo-talk] NPR: A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret

[Miles Jackson]

Matthias Wasser wrote:
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> Is there anyone who doesn't posit neurological  premises of human
> behavior? Anything to do with correlates between brain states and
> behavior is strictly orthogonal to nature/nurture  questions, although
> of course plasticity matters.

Posit any neurological premises of human behavior you like.  If you want 
to provide compelling scientific evidence that your premises are 
correct, you'll need to do better than correlational research.  And to 
be clear: using neuroimaging technology to demonstrate that people with 
neuroanatomical feature X tend to do Y is correlational research. 

Miles