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Category Archives: Cognitive Science

Neurotic science

Jonah Lehrer, popularizer of neuroscience, has an editorial in the Wall Street Journal about willpower that illustrates nicely something that I find silly about (some unknown, seemingly large proportion of) neuroscience. To wit, neuroscience is largely, if not completely, irrelevant to the argument being made. The willpower piece primarily cites behavioral research, with a couple [...]