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Brain 2005 128(3):688-689; doi:10.1093/brain/awh427
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TRUTH

Jean-Pierre Changeux

2004. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press

Price £29.95.

ISBN 0-674-01283-6

Edmund T. Rolls

University of Oxford, UK

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Changeux on the promise of neuroscience


Eminent French neuroscientists have a tradition of producing books on scientific topics of general interest for a wide audience. Here, Jean-Pierre Changeux draws on provocative new findings about the neuroscience and psychophysics of perception and judgement both in humans and in non-human primates. His case is that belief in objective knowledge is a characteristic feature of human cognition, and the scientific method its most sophisticated embodiment. Professor Changeux seeks to explain the ways in which modern science has made it possible to understand how language, truth and even morals are related to our genes and gene products, and to interactions with the environment. Changeux promises a radical understanding in neurophysiological terms of how perception, exploration, trial and error, cognitive games, the cultural . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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