The Subject at Rest: Novel conceptualizations of self and brain from cognitive neuroscience's study of the ‘resting state’

Callard, Felicity; Margulies, Daniel S.

doi:10.1057/sub.2011.11

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“…Although long a condition of interest for researchers working with a variety of modalities including electroencephalography (EEG) and positron emission tomography (PET), the work of Biswal and colleagues [1] marked the birth of the field of study of rest using fMRI (see [89] for an excellent historical account). Although certainly an appropriate designation during the early years of the field, the term ‘resting state’ now seems somewhat of a misnomer.…”

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Characterizing variation in the functional connectome: promise and pitfalls

Kelly¹,

Biswal²,

Craddock³

et al. 2012

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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The functional MRI (fMRI) community has zealously embraced resting state or intrinsic functional connectivity approaches to mapping brain organization. Having demonstrated their utility for charting the large-scale functional architecture of the brain, the field is now leveraging task-independent methods for the investigation of phenotypic variation and the identification of biomarkers for clinical conditions. Enthusiasm aside, questions regarding the significance and validity of intrinsic brain phenomena remain. Here, we discuss these challenges and outline current developments that, in moving the field toward discovery science, permit a shift from cartography toward a mechanistic understanding of the neural bases of variation in cognition, emotion and behavior.

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Characterizing variation in the functional connectome: promise and pitfalls

Kelly¹,

Biswal²,

Craddock³

et al. 2012

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

257

196

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“…They demonstrate how the “brain at rest” (the so‐called default or “resting state” brain which forms the contrasting baseline for neuroscientific studies of brain “activity”) has been re‐imagined as a productive site of industriousness, creativity, future strategising and purposeful mind‐wandering. As such, it is indicative of the “often unacknowledged isomorphism between models of the brain and models of socio‐economic organization” (Callard & Margulies, , p. 245).…”

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“…Others have set out to critically address the constitutive effects of neuroscience itself, for instance in Davies’ research on the dangers of reductionism in neuroscience and genetics (Davies, ); and the evolution of “brain culture” (Pykett, ). Felicity Callard has contributed extensively to the establishment of both critical neuroscience and psychoanalytic geography perspectives on a range of phenomena including the brain “at rest”, mental health and bioethics, and the body in social theory (e.g., Callard, ; Callard & Margulies, ; Papoulias & Callard, ). Fitzgerald and Callard () have also identified the novel theoretical approaches which might be advanced for crossing sociocultural and neurobiological research divides.…”

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Geography and neuroscience: Critical engagements with geography's “neural turn”

Pykett

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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Geographers are increasingly interested in understanding the significance of developments in neuroscience, psychology and the behavioural sciences. Indeed, consideration of these disciplines has arguably shaped the trajectories of human geography since at least the 1960s, but its “neural turn” has only recently been acknowledged. This paper provides an original analysis of the intersections of research on neuroscience and geography. With reference to qualitative interviews with cognitive scientists and neuroscientists based in the UK, it identifies how geographical concepts have been approached within contemporary neuroscience while also identifying the broad trajectories of geographers’ engagements with neuroscience. The discussion demonstrates the political implications of these disciplinary trends for a geographical account of brain culture and brain‐based explanations in policy and practice. Specifically it proposes the development of a “critical neuro‐geography” capable of providing an overarching analysis of these phenomena. The paper's novel synthesis of hitherto disconnected engagements between geography, cognitive science and neuroscience establishes the rationale for a more sustained and critical engagement between neuroscience and geography sensitive to issues of situated subjectivity, power, inequality and difference.

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“…In affective neuroscience there are many ongoing debates regarding the character, locations, composition, functions and workings of affect systems. Compounding this, many of the brain systems and areas currently thought to enable happiness (the medial prefrontal cortex, the default mode network) are significant, not just for other emotions, but for other functions entirely (Beaumont, Kenealy, & Rogers, 1996; Callard & Margulies, 2011).…”

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The Greatest Gift? Happiness, Governance and Psychology

Cromby

2011

Social & Personality Psych

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Both in the UK and internationally, governments are setting out to measure well‐being, life satisfaction and happiness. Whilst this might seem to offer opportunities for psychology, their chosen method – self‐report questionnaires – is problematic. Happiness questionnaires are troubled by problems of definition, introspection, memory and insight; their population‐level summation is grossly inaccurate as a representation of everyday emotional experience; and both their reliability and their validity might be better accounted for as products of their ability to model, rather than to measure, psychological processes. Psychology therefore runs the risk of discrediting itself if it becomes too closely associated with these initiatives.

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The Subject at Rest: Novel conceptualizations of self and brain from cognitive neuroscience's study of the ‘resting state’

Cited by 44 publications

References 83 publications

Characterizing variation in the functional connectome: promise and pitfalls

Characterizing variation in the functional connectome: promise and pitfalls

Geography and neuroscience: Critical engagements with geography's “neural turn”

The Greatest Gift? Happiness, Governance and Psychology

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