Article "How we may think: Imaging and writing technologies accross the history of the neurosciences"

Ayu Rina Dwi Utari
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88th article

"How we may think: Imaging and writing technologies accross the history of the neurosciences"

Adapting a distinction proposed by Peter Galison, visualization regimes is analyzed as the contrast between an imaging and a writing approach: the imaging approach, focusing on mimetic representations, preserving material and spatial relations, and the writing approach as used in physiological studies, retaining functional relations. The availability of functional neuroimaging signaled an opportunity to overcome the duality of imaging and writing, but revived initially a phrenological conflation of form and function, suppressing the writing approach in relation to imaging.