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We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.

— Christopher deCharms

“This is, in fact, exactly how electrical engineers go about understanding and debugging circuits such as computer boards (to reverse engineer a competitor’s product,…

— Ray Kurzweil

“nothing has contributed more to the scientific validity of reading body language than neuroscience and the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Magnetic…

— Carol Kinsey Goman

“Like the invention of the telescope, the introduction of MRI machines and a variety of advanced brain scans”

— Michio Kaku

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms…

— Francisco Varela

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

— Tan Le

Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most complex tasks…

— Joshua Greene

While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics,…

— Michael Gazzaniga

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

— David Eagleman

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the…

— Steven Pinker

“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on…

— Nick Bostrom

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

— John O'Keefe