Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
The matter of how neurofeedback works is a very big question that requires a Nobel prize-winning answer, which I don’t have. Sterman (2000) discovered the complexity of neurofeedback in his earliest studies of seizure:
Sebern F. Fisher • Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain (10th Anniversary Edition)
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
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uncritically by the press,
Malcolm Jeeves • Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience
In short, scientists agree that stimuli can activate parts of your brain and even influence your experience without your conscious awareness, but most won’t dignify a phenomenon of such weak intensity, duration, and effect with the term attention. Taking a stance to be applauded by English majors everywhere, their position is: “Subconscious informa
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