- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 A Critique of Functional Localizers -
2 Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers -
3 Commentary on Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers -
4 An Exchange about Localism -
5 Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data: High-Dimensional Spaces for Neural and Cognitive Representations -
6 Begging the Question: The Nonindependence Error in fMRI Data Analysis -
7 On the Proper Role of Nonindependent ROI Analysis: A Commentary on Vul and Kanwisher -
8 On the Advantages of Not Having to Rely on Multiple Comparison Corrections -
9 Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI -
10 Words and Pictures in Reports of fMRI Research -
11 Discovering How Brains Do Things -
12 Resting-State Brain Connectivity -
13 Subtraction and Beyond: The Logic of Experimental Designs for Neuroimaging -
14 Advancements in fMRI Methods: What Can They Inform about the Functional Organization of the Human Ventral Stream? -
15 Intersubject Variability in fMRI Data: Causes, Consequences, and Related Analysis Strategies -
16 Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance: The Perils of Pictures -
17 Brains and Minds: On the Usefulness of Localization Data to Cognitive Psychology -
18 Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes -
19 What Is Functional Neuroimaging For? - References
- Contributors
- Index
Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI
Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI
- Chapter:
- (p.99) 9 Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI
- Source:
- Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping
- Author(s):
Christopher Mole
Colin Klein
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter focuses on the confirmation, refutation, and evidence of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, and discusses the application of neuroimaging techniques to various fields, including cognitive sciences. It addresses the question of the role of neuroimaging data in providing informative evidence regarding hypotheses in cognitive science and explains differences in data, high-level null hypotheses, and ways to accommodate null hypotheses. Finally, the chapter looks into the scope of neuroimaging data in the cognitive sciences.
Keywords: fMRI, cognitive sciences, neuroimaging data, confirmation, refutation, null hypotheses
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 A Critique of Functional Localizers -
2 Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers -
3 Commentary on Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers -
4 An Exchange about Localism -
5 Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data: High-Dimensional Spaces for Neural and Cognitive Representations -
6 Begging the Question: The Nonindependence Error in fMRI Data Analysis -
7 On the Proper Role of Nonindependent ROI Analysis: A Commentary on Vul and Kanwisher -
8 On the Advantages of Not Having to Rely on Multiple Comparison Corrections -
9 Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI -
10 Words and Pictures in Reports of fMRI Research -
11 Discovering How Brains Do Things -
12 Resting-State Brain Connectivity -
13 Subtraction and Beyond: The Logic of Experimental Designs for Neuroimaging -
14 Advancements in fMRI Methods: What Can They Inform about the Functional Organization of the Human Ventral Stream? -
15 Intersubject Variability in fMRI Data: Causes, Consequences, and Related Analysis Strategies -
16 Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance: The Perils of Pictures -
17 Brains and Minds: On the Usefulness of Localization Data to Cognitive Psychology -
18 Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes -
19 What Is Functional Neuroimaging For? - References
- Contributors
- Index
