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| Title |
“Messing with the mindâ€: evolutionary challenges to human brain augmentation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00152 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Arthur Saniotis, Maciej Henneberg, Jaliya Kumaratilake, James P. Grantham |
| Abstract |
The issue of brain augmentation has received considerable scientific attention over the last two decades. A key factor to brain augmentation that has been widely overlooked are the complex evolutionary processes which have taken place in evolving the human brain to its current state of functioning. Like other bodily organs, the human brain has been subject to the forces of biological adaptation. The structure and function of the brain, is very complex and only now we are beginning to understand some of the basic concepts of cognition. Therefore, this article proposes that brain-machine interfacing and nootropics are not going to produce "augmented" brains because we do not understand enough about how evolutionary pressures have informed the neural networks which support human cognitive faculties. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Ireland | 1 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 43 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 40 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 23% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 16% |
| Researcher | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 12% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 10 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 8 | 19% |
| Psychology | 6 | 14% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 9% |
| Engineering | 3 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 21% |
| Unknown | 10 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2018.
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#4,705,540
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Outputs from Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
#423
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#52,599
of 253,373 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
#20
of 60 outputs
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