A Discussion of the notion of Race in Cognitive Neuroscience Research

Trujillo, Anelis Kaiser, Emily Ngubia Kessé, and Oliver Rollins. 2022. “A Discussion of the notion of Race in Cognitive Neuroscience Research” Cortex 150: 153-164 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.11.007

A recent editorial in Cortex (Cubelli & Della Sala, 2018) proposed to ban of the term race in neuroscience research citing that the concept of race has no scientific basis and justifies discrimination. Kaiser Trujillo, Kesse and Rollins submitted a commentary to that editorial, agreeing that race does not have biological foundations but maintaining that the social construction of race is critical to research.

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