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LONI & Co: Die epistemische Spezifität digitaler Wissensräume in der kognitiven Neurowissenschaft
Author(s) -
Huber Lara
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
berichte zur wissenschaftsgeschichte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1522-2365
pISSN - 0170-6233
DOI - 10.1002/bewi.201101502
Subject(s) - cognitive science , computer science , cognition , rendering (computer graphics) , data science , epistemology , neuroscience , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Abstract LONI & Co: About the Epistemic Specificity of Digital Spaces of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience. In the neurosciences digital databases more and more are becoming important tools of data rendering and distributing. This development is due to the growing impact of imaging based trial design in cognitive neuroscience, including morphological as much as functional imaging technologies. As the case of the ‘Laboratory of Neuro Imaging’ (LONI) is showing, databases are attributed a specific epistemological power: Since the 1990s databasing is seen to foster the integration of neuroscientific data, although local regimes of data production, ‐manipulation and ‐interpretation are also challenging this development. Databasing in the neurosciences goes along with the introduction of new structures of integrating local data, hence establishing digital spaces of knowledge (epistemic spaces): At this stage, inherent norms of digital databases are affecting regimes of imaging‐based trial design, for example clinical research into Alzheimer's disease.