Working with Brain Scans: Digital Images and Gestural Interaction in fMRI Laboratory Export

@article{citeulike:3107396, abstract = {A significant part of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) practice in neuroscience is spent in front of computer screens. To investigate the brain neuroscientists work with digital images. This paper recovers practical dealings with brain scans in fMRI laboratories to focus on the achievement of seeing in the digital realm. While looking at brain images, neuroscientists gesture and manipulate digital displays to manage and make sense of their experimental data. Their gestural engagements are seen as dynamical phenomenal objects enacted at the junction between the digital world of technology and the world of embodied action. 10.1177/0306312708089715}, author = {Alac, Morana}, citeulike-article-id = {3107396}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312708089715}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/4/483}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0306312708089715}, journal = {Social Studies of Science}, keywords = {digital, fmri, gesture, images, interaction, laboratory, lit-koerperbilder, multimodal, semiotic, studies}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {483--508}, posted-at = {2009-01-28 18:24:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Working with Brain Scans: Digital Images and Gestural Interaction in fMRI Laboratory}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312708089715}, volume = {38}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3107396 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3107396 N2 - A significant part of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) practice in neuroscience is spent in front of computer screens. To investigate the brain neuroscientists work with digital images. This paper recovers practical dealings with brain scans in fMRI laboratories to focus on the achievement of seeing in the digital realm. While looking at brain images, neuroscientists gesture and manipulate digital displays to manage and make sense of their experimental data. Their gestural engagements are seen as dynamical phenomenal objects enacted at the junction between the digital world of technology and the world of embodied action. 10.1177/0306312708089715 IS - 4 JF - Social Studies of Science EP - 508 TI - Working with Brain Scans: Digital Images and Gestural Interaction in fMRI Laboratory VL - 38 SP - 483 KW - digital KW - fmri KW - gesture KW - images KW - interaction KW - laboratory KW - lit-koerperbilder KW - multimodal KW - semiotic KW - studies AU - Alac, Morana PY - 2008/08/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312708089715 ER -