... This chapter describes the multiple meanings of neural plasticity in scientific research, as well as the use of plasticity to account for scientific findings of brain difference by sex and class. The chapter identifies the difficulties with conceptualizing and measuring human sameness...

... of neural matter. Doesn’t the emphasis on the brain reinscribe the executive and reproduce sovereignty? The concern is not only to reveal the political models of sovereignty condensed in Malabou’s model of brain function, but also for the genealogy of brain science that has always imagined a particular...

... Social neuroscientists address kinship through biologically rooted, affective feelings of attachment, arguing that humans and other mammals experience sustained social bonds through the involvement of neural processes linked to affect and memory. They draw heavily from animal studies...

... of the human ear, and the neural and electrochemical bases of hearing. It then examines how these objective sciences of hearing cannot remove significant subjective components from listening and, in fact, point us in the direction of a constructivist understanding of sonic experience. For example, it considers...

... encapsulations of key notions such as the propagation, refraction, and reverberation of sound waves, frequency and pressure amplitude, the structure of the human ear, and the neural and electrochemical bases of hearing. It then examines how these objective sciences of hearing cannot remove significant subjective...