I haven’t picked on the fMRI folks for awhile, but was inspired today by a new post over at the excellent neuroscience-of-language blog Talking Brains entitled “Functional brain imaging, it’s not always where you think it is.” And that reminded me that I also wanted to write something about an excellent article in Scientific American [...]
As if the fMRI community wasn’t taking enough hits (as summarized in earlier posts on this blog, here and here), a real bombshell went off when a pre-print version of a paper with the catchy title “Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience” began to circulate.
The paper made a provocative charge, that much of the fMRI research [...]
Eventually the chickens come home to roost. Or insert your favorite aphorism here. It looks like a full backlash is officially underway regarding some of the more, shall we say, inventive uses of fMRI to peer into people’s brains while they’re thinking about stuff – especially political stuff like Presidential candidates and world peace.
It all [...]
Mind Hacks is a great and accessible blog on all things mind- and brain-related.
Yesterday Mind Hacks blogger Vaughan posted an excellent article called “The fMRI smackdown cometh” that describes in refreshingly clear prose some of the issues and challenges facing fMRI research. He notes that:
Numerous articles in hard hitting publications have questioned some common assumptions [...]