Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment
Recent neuroscience initiatives (including the E.U.’s Human Brain Project and the U.S.’s BRAIN Initiative) have reinvigorated discussions about the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration between the neurosciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. As STS scholars have argued for de...
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| author | Melissa M. Littlefield Melissa M. Littlefield Des eFitzgerald Kasper eKnudsen James eTonks Martin eDietz |
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| description | Recent neuroscience initiatives (including the E.U.’s Human Brain Project and the U.S.’s BRAIN Initiative) have reinvigorated discussions about the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration between the neurosciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. As STS scholars have argued for decades, however, such inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations are potentially fraught with tensions between researchers. This essay build on such claims by arguing that the tensions of transdisciplinary research also exist within researchers’ own experiences of working between disciplines – a phenomenon that we call ‘Disciplinary Double Consciousness’ (DDC). Building on previous work that has characterized similar spaces (and especially on the Critical Neuroscience literature), we argue that ‘neuro-collaborations’ inevitably engage researchers in DDC – a phenomenon that allows us to explore the useful dissonance that researchers can experience when working between a home discipline and a secondary discipline. Our case study is a five-year case study in fMRI lie detection involving a transdisciplinary research team made up of social scientists, a neuroscientist, and a humanist. In addition to theorizing neuro-collaborations from the inside-out, this essay presents practical suggestions for developing transdisciplinary infrastructures that could support future neuro-collaborations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-051c02debb1347f18fdd615238e473c82022-12-22T03:48:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612014-03-01810.3389/fnhum.2014.0014980377Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection ExperimentMelissa M. Littlefield0Melissa M. Littlefield1Des eFitzgerald2Kasper eKnudsen3James eTonks4Martin eDietz5University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignKings College LondonAarhus UniversityUniversity of ExeterAarhus UniversityRecent neuroscience initiatives (including the E.U.’s Human Brain Project and the U.S.’s BRAIN Initiative) have reinvigorated discussions about the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration between the neurosciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. As STS scholars have argued for decades, however, such inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations are potentially fraught with tensions between researchers. This essay build on such claims by arguing that the tensions of transdisciplinary research also exist within researchers’ own experiences of working between disciplines – a phenomenon that we call ‘Disciplinary Double Consciousness’ (DDC). Building on previous work that has characterized similar spaces (and especially on the Critical Neuroscience literature), we argue that ‘neuro-collaborations’ inevitably engage researchers in DDC – a phenomenon that allows us to explore the useful dissonance that researchers can experience when working between a home discipline and a secondary discipline. Our case study is a five-year case study in fMRI lie detection involving a transdisciplinary research team made up of social scientists, a neuroscientist, and a humanist. In addition to theorizing neuro-collaborations from the inside-out, this essay presents practical suggestions for developing transdisciplinary infrastructures that could support future neuro-collaborations.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00149/fulltransdisciplinarityCritical Neuroscienceneuro-collaborationdisciplinary double consciousnessfMRI lie detection |
| spellingShingle | Melissa M. Littlefield Melissa M. Littlefield Des eFitzgerald Kasper eKnudsen James eTonks Martin eDietz Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment Frontiers in Human Neuroscience transdisciplinarity Critical Neuroscience neuro-collaboration disciplinary double consciousness fMRI lie detection |
| title | Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment |
| title_full | Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment |
| title_fullStr | Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment |
| title_short | Contextualizing Neuro-Collaborations: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary fMRI Lie Detection Experiment |
| title_sort | contextualizing neuro collaborations reflections on a transdisciplinary fmri lie detection experiment |
| topic | transdisciplinarity Critical Neuroscience neuro-collaboration disciplinary double consciousness fMRI lie detection |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00149/full |
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