The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain

By W. Uttal. 2001

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Is the mind really modular (2005, background): “Uttal (2001) points out that there is considerable inconsistency across laboratories and studies.”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, unknown): “…mental content (“faculty psychology”; e.g., Broca 1861/2003; Gall & Spurzheim 1809), or whether it is organized as a set of more basic, domain-general elements that together make a variety of mental states (e.g., Hartley 1749; Herbart 1809; Thorndike 1923; for reviews, see Klein 1970; Uttal 2001).”
Not so Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims Concerning Human Agency (2010, background): “1 It has to be said, however, that there is no shortage of neuroscientists and philosophers who have pointed to what they feel are the undue extensions, in philosophical, methodological and applicative terms, of the researches on the brain to issues of human agency [81–83].”
Evolutionary neuromarketing: darwinizing the neuroimaging paradigm for consumer behavior (2008, background): “Numerous other scholars have questioned the value of the brain mapping paradigm including Uttal (2001) who referred to the endeavor as a new form of phrenology, as well as the Neuroscience Institute (fMRI Colloquium Series) at Stanford University who sponsored a debate on 30 November 2005 tided…”
The trees and the forest: Characterization of complex brain networks with minimum spanning trees. (2014, unknown): “Attempts at strict localization of brain function have been criticized by Uttal, who referred to this type of work as " neophrenology " (Uttal, 2001).”
Self-organization of cognitive performance. (2003, background): “However, no existing data reliably dissociate preconscious, unconscious, or conscious components or any other cognitive components (Chalmers, 1996; Farah, 1994; Fodor, 2000; Uttal, 2001; Velmans, 2000).”
Neuroscience and the Multiple Realization of Cognitive Functions* (2010, background): “…that cognitive processes are properties of the whole brain’s operation or large portions of it, which is a holist position—and even holists (e.g., Uttal 2001) reject Lashley’s (1929, 1950) theory of equipotentiality, in which any cortical anatomical region can in principle subserve any…”
The biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain: scientific advances and future directions. (2007, background): “The notion of whether fMRI is a modern phrenology is under debate (D. I. Donaldson, 2004; Terrazas & McNaughton, 2000; Uttal, 2001).”