Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA ; Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA.
Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, Kings College London London, UK ; Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Mar 31;8:149. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00149. eCollection 2014.
Recent neuroscience initiatives (including the E.U.'s Human Brain Project and the U.S.'s BRAIN Initiative) have reinvigorated discussions about the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration between the neurosciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. As STS scholars have argued for decades, however, such inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations are potentially fraught with tensions between researchers. This essay build on such claims by arguing that the tensions of transdisciplinary research also exist within researchers' own experiences of working between disciplines - a phenomenon that we call "disciplinary double consciousness" (DDC). Building on previous work that has characterized similar spaces (and especially on the Critical Neuroscience literature), we argue that "neuro-collaborations" inevitably engage researchers in DDC - a phenomenon that allows us to explore the useful dissonance that researchers can experience when working between a "home" discipline and a secondary discipline. Our case study is a five-year research project in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) lie detection involving a transdisciplinary research team made up of social scientists, a neuroscientist, and a humanist. In addition to theorizing neuro-collaborations from the inside-out, this essay presents practical suggestions for developing transdisciplinary infrastructures that could support future neuro-collaborations.
最近的神经科学计划（包括欧盟的“人类大脑计划”和美国的“大脑倡议”）重新激发了关于神经科学、社会科学和人文学科之间跨学科合作的可能性的讨论。然而，正如 STS 学者几十年来所主张的那样，这种跨学科合作可能充满了研究人员之间的紧张关系。本文通过论证跨学科研究的紧张关系也存在于研究人员在学科之间工作的自身经历中，进一步提出了这一观点——我们称之为“学科双重意识”（DDC）。本文以之前描述类似空间的工作为基础（尤其是以批判性神经科学文献为基础），认为“神经合作”不可避免地使研究人员陷入 DDC——一种现象，使我们能够探索研究人员在“主场”学科和辅助学科之间工作时可能经历的有用不和谐。我们的案例研究是一个为期五年的功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）测谎研究项目，涉及一个由社会科学家、神经科学家和人类学家组成的跨学科研究团队。除了从内到外对神经合作进行理论化，本文还提出了发展跨学科基础设施的实际建议，以支持未来的神经合作。
