The displays are full of stuff, making the most of their abundant material, and the stated intention is for "the artefacts to speak for themselves", for which four cheers.
First, it prevents motion-induced susceptibility artefacts, since subjects only speak when no fMRI data are recorded.
Not only do Assyrian Christians lay claim to some of the oldest literary, architectural, and geographical artefacts of Christianity, they also speak the language of Jesus.
"In a way, these are artefacts left over from a dead culture," says Mott, "but they speak more powerfully about what punk was really about, that moment of momentum and self-empowerment.
First, to avoid the artefacts possibly produced by speaking out loud or writing, participants were instructed to build the sentences in mind and press a button to confirm that a sentence had been formed.
When I speak to him via Skype he shows me a blanket next to him filled with artefacts - statues of animals and human figures, glasses, vases and coins.
All the artefacts are familiar, as is the tortured landscape, but none of the known systems are in place – no government to speak of, no infrastructure, no CNN, no internet, no universities.
But in the 2000s it came to speak for a generation of tech-savvy music geeks who hold these truths to be self-evident: Kid A is the best Radiohead album; Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a sacred artefact; and every band is better on their first record.
We speak of interface abstraction.
