Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, by Shane O’Mara
Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose
Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose
Shane O’Mara is both fascinated and disappointed by a bold attempt to provide an ‘overarching framework’ for how the brain works
Shane O’Mara considers the many different and always inadequate metaphors we have used to analyse our mental functioning
An unsettling study of patients in comas reveals that consciousness endures, says Shane O’Mara
This unusual and intellectually invigorating book should be an essential starting point for feeling our way ahead in this field, says Shane O’Mara