Web Resources

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Smithsonian Magazine on what the theory of phrenology has to do with modern neuroscience.
 
...Not so seductive after all? A brief on how fMRI studies can be deceptively thought of as better science than studies using other methods when they might not be.
 
Discussion of localization of function in the brain.
 
Reinvigorate your knowledge of the nervous system.
 
Video of fMRI with Alan Alda and Nancy Kanwisher
 
A lesson from 83,000 brain scans.
 
An exploration of the prefrontal cortex. The role the prefrontal cortex plays in determining personality. An overview of how Phineas Gage’s accident changed him as a result of his brain damage.