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Article: Seeing the mind in the matter: functional brain imaging as framed visual argument.(Report)
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- Argumentation and Advocacy
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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In June, 2003, Newsweek devoted a special issue to what its cover boldly proclaimed were "Inventions that Will Change the World." Along with quantum cryptography, designer babies, and rain-producing machines, functional brain imaging was pegged as one of ten inventions poised to impact life in the twenty-first century significantly. One article described how brain imaging "shows what happens when liars lie and patients feel sad," predicting that the technology one day could be used for lie detection and the diagnosis of mental disorders (Zimmer 60). In 2005, the Los Angeles Times began a series entitled "Mapping the Mind." One article described studies of preference that ...