May 12, 2006
Neurologism spotting:
I just read the recent New Sci article on mind reading with fMRI that Vaughan flagged up recently, and couldn't help noticing two more neurologisms coined by the writer of the article, Douglas Fox.
Neuronaut: Fox describes getting ready to enter the brain scanner - "As they prepared the experiment this morning, I felt like an astronaut - a neuronaut you might say - getting ready for launch". So a neuronaut is a virgin neurosi experimental subject.
Neuro-legible: The researchers had managed to read Fox's brain with 90 per cent accuracy. "As I hang up, I'm strangely glad to know my brain is neuro-legible...". So neuro-legibility describes how easily your brain can be read by brain scanning technologies.
Link to Vaughan on the New Sci article.
Link 1, 2, and 3 for Mind Hacks posts on the search for neurologisms.
