Handling digital brains [electronic resource] : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / Morana Alač.
2011
QA76.9.H85 A53 2011eb
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Handling digital brains [electronic resource] : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / Morana Alač.
Author
Alač, Morana.
ISBN
9780262295475 (electronic bk.)
9780262015684
9780262015684
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 199 p., [2] p. of col. plates) : ill. (some col.).
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QA76.9.H85 A53 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8/2
Summary
"fMRI tesearchers do not sit passively staring at computer screens but actively involve their bodies in laboratory practice. Discussing fMRI visuals with colleagues, scientists animate the scans with gestures and talk as they work with computers. Alač argues that to understand how digital scientific visuals take on meaning, we must consider their dynamic coordination with gestures, speech, and working hands. These multimodal interactions, she suggests, are an essential component of digital scientific works...Scientific practices in the fMRI lab demonstrate thinking that engages the whole lived body and the world in which the body is situated. The turn toward the digital does not bring with it abstraction but a manual and embodied engagement. The practical and multimodal engagement with digital brains in the laboratory challenges certain assumptions behind fMRI technology; it suggests our hands are essential to learning and the making of meaning." --From jacket description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Inside technology.
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Table of Contents
In the fMRI laboratory
fMRI brain visuals as fields for interaction
fMRI brain imaging and the experience of sound
fMRI brain visuals and semiotic bodies
The semiotic mind in action
Materiality of digital brains
Publishing fmri visuals
Conclusion.
fMRI brain visuals as fields for interaction
fMRI brain imaging and the experience of sound
fMRI brain visuals and semiotic bodies
The semiotic mind in action
Materiality of digital brains
Publishing fmri visuals
Conclusion.