Prof. Alac’s observation of the fMRI practitioner as “multi-modal” and “cyborg-like”
Alac refers to the practitioners’ observation as multi-modal because she notes that the researchers aren’t passive and actively involve themselves in laboratory practices.
Prof. Alac’s attitude to Holmes and Pettigrew’s use of “the mind” interchangeably with “the brain”
Alac felt uneasy with Pettigrews’ remarks because she felt like they were trying to detach our brains from our bodies and our bodies from their social-cultural environment.
Prof. Alac’s use pf the term embodiment
Alac uses the term embodiment to try and relate the digital brain with its surrounding, just as how human thinking engages the whole body and its world. (Alac, 41).
The decreased popularity of small-scale laboratory studies
Due to the very expensive scanning machines and their enormous sizes, the popularity of laboratories has decreased in recent years. However, research must continue to help determine the relationship between the work done in the labs and the condition of the facts developed at the laboratory.
Digital film as a method to collect and analyze data during Morana Alac’s ethnographic study of neuroscientists
Digital films are important in these computerized times. They will help tell more of ourselves and our surroundings in addition, so neuroscientists think with their hands as they go about their work.
Works Cited
Alac, Morana. Handling Digital Brains: A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic Interaction in the Age of Computers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Print.