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Brain imaging, ethology, and the nonhuman mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Gordon M. Burghardt
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Zoology and the Graduate Program in Ethology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0900, burghd@utkvx.utk.edu

Abstract

Posner & Raichle's (1994) exciting, wonderfully illustrated book describes the past successes and future potential of the relatively noninvasive imaging of the nervous systems of living people. The focus has been on cognitive processes but there is no reason why emotional and motivational systems cannot also be tapped. Although the authors do not formally address such contentious issues as consciousness and the private experience of other species, imaging methods may hold promise for helping us to understand these phenomena, as well as to integrate psychological processes into ethological and phylogenetic research in general.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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