<!-- TITLE: Qualitative methods in neuroscience --> <!-- SUBTITLE: in the context of addressing brain heterogeneity --> + In [this study in Mexico](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269700745_Neuroscience_and_Ethnography_An_Interdisciplinary_Revision_and_a_Cognitive_Proposal_based_on_Compassion_Research_in_Mexico) they use it in a peripheral way. + A quick [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&as_vis=1&q=ethnography+neuroscience+%22qualitative%22+fmri&btnG=) search: + [The experience of watching dance: phenomenological–neuroscience duets](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-010-9191-x) (2011) + [Neuroanthropology: a humanistic science for the study of the culture–brain nexus](https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/5/2-3/138/1648167) (2009) + [Studying the Effects of Culture by Integrating Neuroscientific With Ethnographic Approaches](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2013.770278) (2013) + I then searched for "neuroanthropology" in titles of articles indexed in Web of Science, took some highly cited, and looked at the most highly cited papers which cited those papers. + This gave a much more general result-set than what I was imagining, but many of them hinge explicitly on taking notice of the underlying heterogeneity of neural structure. Some were completely unrelated, but interesting to me nonetheless, so I put them here. + The pivot papers: + Laughlin 1997 Body, brain, and behavior: The neuroanthropology of... + Roepstorff 2012 Neuroanthropology or simply anthropology? Going... + Duque 2010 Neuroanthropology: a humanistic science for the... + Lende 2012 Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology + The results: + [Whatever next? Predictive brains,situated agents, and the future ofcognitive science](https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/33542C736E17E3D1D44E8D03BE5F4CD9/S0140525X12000477a.pdf/div-class-title-whatever-next-predictive-brains-situated-agents-and-the-future-of-cognitive-science-div.pdf) + [Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements ](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276414537319) + from the abstract: "it is no longer practicable to maintain a hygienic separation between sociocultural webs and neurobiological architecture" + [Integrative Anthropology and the Human Niche: Toward a Contemporary Approach to Human Evolution](https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.12248) is completely off the target, but super interesting. It gives an account of influence of evolutionary forces on social arrangement + [This crazy article](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321732466_Leveraging_heterogeneity_for_neural_computation_with_fading_memory_in_layer_23_cortical_microcircuits) talks about how ignoring heterogeneity in cortical structure (the interacting neurons) makes it impossible to account for some neural phenomena (layer 2/3 cortical microcircuits) + Googling `particularity neuroscience heterogeneity` seems to be more up my alley in looking for heterogeneity problems / solutions in neuroscience + [Methodological Problems on the Way to Integrative Human Neuroscience](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126073/) (2016) + [Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: prospects for cultural psychiatry](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5161496/) + [Heterogeneity in Oligodendroglia (a neuron type)](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jnr.23900) + Other results were on specific application areas: pediatric neurology, neuroscience of aggression, dyslexia explanation, law and neuroscience, etc.