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This chapter develops an account of neuroimaging that conceives brain imaging methods as at once formative and revealing of neurophenomena. Starting with a critical discussion of two metaphors that are often evoked in the context of neuroimaging, the ‘window’ and the ‘view from nowhere’, Carusi and Hoel propose an approach that goes beyond contrasts between transparency and opacity, or between complete and partial perspectives. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s discussion of painting in ‘Eye and Mind’, where he sets forth an integrated account of vision, images, objects, and space, the authors argue that the handling and understanding of space in neuroimaging involves the establishment of a ‘system of equivalences’ in the terms of Merleau-Ponty. Accentuating the generative dimension of images and visualizations, the notion of seeing according to a system of equivalences offers a conceptual and analytic tool that opens a new line of inquiry into scientific vision.
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