Nice overviews of each respective area ...
Strueber, D., Lueck, M., and Roth, G. (2006) The violent brain. Scientific American Mind, December, , 20-27.
The full text of this is available from the website:
http://www.sciammind.com/ <http://www.sciammind.com/>
Grafton, S.T., Sinott-Armstrong, W.P., Gazzaniga, S.I., and Gazzaniga, M.S. (2006) Brain scans go legal. Scientific American Mind, December, , 30-37.
Nice jurisprudence-oriented article ...
Nicolelis, M.A.L., Ribeiro, S. (2006) Seeking the neural code. Scientific American, December, , 70-77.
Excellent read - and look at that last paragraph ...
"It is perhaps no wonder that monitoring neurons one at a time encourage a linear, non-centric view of neural communication. Those early methods could be compared to hearing only one voice during the performance of an opera - no matter how talented the soloist, one would still find it hard to follow the story. When combined into large and widely distributed neural ensembles, however, the collective interactions of these neurons yield exquisitely accurate descriptions of our surrounding environment. Thus, whenever a rat escapes another charging cat, its salvation is most likely thanks to a symphony of electrical pulses playing in is head"
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