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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454112803321

Autore

Kellert Stephen H

Titolo

Borrowed knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : chaos theory and the challenge of learning across disciplines / / Stephen H. Kellert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-07036-3

9786612070365

0-226-42980-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

003/.857

Soggetti

Chaotic behavior in systems

Science - Philosophy

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What Was Chaos Theory, and Why Would People Want to Borrow It? -- 2. Disciplinary Pluralism -- 3. The Rhetorical Functions of Borrowing and the Uses of Disciplinary Prestige -- 4. Motivating Methodological Change -- 5. Metaphorical Chaos -- 6. How to Criticize a Metaphor -- 7. Facts, Values, and Intervention -- 8. Beautiful Chaos? -- 9. Postmodern Chaos and the Challenge of Pluralism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic judgments. Using the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines examines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well as the



place of scientific knowledge within our broader culture. Stephen H. Kellert's detailed investigation of the myriad uses of chaos theory reveals serious problems that can arise in the interchange between science and other knowledge-making pursuits, as well as opportunities for constructive interchange. By engaging with recent debates about interdisciplinary research, Kellert contributes a theoretical vocabulary and a set of critical frameworks for the rigorous examination of borrowing.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346742003321

Autore

Jing Xiang

Titolo

New Insights on Basic and Clinical Aspects of EEG and MEG Connectome

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Recent advances in the neuroimaging field areas allow us to visualize the aggregate of neural connections at the macroscopic level within the brain, the so-called "connectome". In order to promote the development of the neurophysiological investigation of connectome of brain oscillations, this eBook aims at bringing together contributions from researchers in basic and clinical neuroscience using EEG and MEG connectome analysis. The most important focal point will be to address the functional roles of connectome of brain oscillations in contributing to understandings of higher cognitive processes in normal subjects and pathophysiology of psychiatric diseases. This Research Topic presented novel methodologies and various applications of neurophysiological connectome analysis. As a result, these papers were cited more than 120 times in these four years in total and threw light and impact on



new directions for investigating the connectome of human brain.