From anomalies to essential scientific revolution? Intrinsic brain activity in the light of Kuhn’s philosophy of science

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2017.00007" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnsys.2017.00007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From anomalies to essential scientific revolution? Intrinsic brain activity in the light of Kuhn’s philosophy of science

Original language description

The first step towards a modern understanding of fMRI resting brain activity was made by Bharat Biswal in 1995. This surprising, and at first rejected, discovery is now associated with many resting state networks, notably the famous default mode network (DMN). Resting state activity and DMN significantly reassessed our traditional beliefs and conventions about the functioning of the brain. For the majority of the 20th century, neuroscientists assumed that the brain is mainly the ‘reactive engine’ to the environment operating mostly through stimulation. This ‘reactive convention’ was very influential and convenient for the goals of 20th century neuroscience - noninvasive functional localization based on stimulation. Largely unchallenged, ‘reactive convention’ determined the direction of scientific research for a long time and became the ‘reactive paradigm’ of the 20th century. Resting state activity brought knowledge that was quite different of the ‘reactive paradigm’. Current research of the DMN, probably the best known resting state network, leads to entirely new observations and conclusions, which were not achievable from the perspective of the ‘reactive paradigm’. This shift from reactive activity to resting state activity of the brain is accompanied by an important question: ‘Can resting state activity be considered a scientific revolution and the new paradigm of neuroscience, or is it only significant for one branch of neuroscience such as fMRI?’

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

ISSN

1662-5137

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

"Article Number: 7"

UT code for WoS article

000394971200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85015452384