- 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
Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes
Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes
- Chapter:
- (p.241) 18 Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes
- Source:
- Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping
- Author(s):
William Bechtel
Richard C. Richardson
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter describes neuroimaging as a tool for functionally decomposing cognitive processes. It looks into neuroimaging’s contribution to understanding and explaining cognitive mechanisms, and discusses the use and abuse of neuroimaging. The chapter presents a critique of neuroimaging studies as well as an analysis of such studies—for example, single-cell recording and transcranial magnetic stimulation. These studies demonstrate the insignificant contribution of neuroimaging to the maturation of cognitive theories.
Keywords: neuroimaging, cognitive theories, single-cell recording, transcranial magnetic stimulation, cognitive mechanisms
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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
