Review of Bennett and Hacker\u27s History of Cognitive Neuroscience

What purpose history of science? Old-style writers adopt the present as key perspective, depicting an ever-advancing forward march. Contemporary historians usually prefer exploring social and cultural influences. A third tactic is also available: history to clarify conceptual frames. Do brains see, attend, remember, think, understand, translate, and emote? More to the point, do synaptic networks possess psychological attributes? In a provocative century-plus spanning history of empirical work in cognitive neuroscience, Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker answer a resounding no