Current neurocultural overview
Stefano Tognacci
The present article wants to be in continuity, without being a real completion,
with the previous one. In the first part some aspects and constructs of the
object and / or renewed interest of neuroscience and others were presented. Also
some more technical aspects related to neuroscience were presented. In this second
part we consider other exemplary aspects linked to a current and immanent
«neuroculture», through a brief and evidently inexhaustible presentation of some
«neurodisciplines» such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics and neuromarketing,
which certainly make use, at least in part, of neuroscientific elements already
presented. Beyond what was said at the beginning an important objective, as for
the first part, is to provide some contents as well as disciplinary in a broad sense,
including technical ones, as useful knowledge in the educational and humanistic
perspective characteristic of this magazine. In essence, providing knowledge in
a popular way useful for border issues, aware of the fact that it is a small part of
the whole. Another objective will hopefully be to allow at least some of these new
neuroscientific areas to be approached with a thoughtful thought, able to grasp
its value and opportunity, without risking to be crushed by it.
Keywords
Neuroculture, neuroeconomics, neuroethics, neuromarketing.