Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping

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Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping (Bradford Books)
By Stephen José Hanson, Martin Bunzl




&#8226ublisher:  The MIT Press
•Number Of Pages:  344
&#8226ublication Date:  2010-06-30
•ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0262513943
•ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780262513944


Product Description:

The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed. Brain imaging research has been the source of many advances in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive science over the last decade, but recent critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Indeed, concerns over interpretation of brain maps have created serious controversies in social neuroscience, and, more important, point to a larger set of issues that lie at the heart of the entire brain mapping enterprise. In this volume, leading scholars—neuroimagers and philosophers of mind—reexamine these central issues and explore current controversies that have arisen in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, and signal processing.

The contributors address both statistical and dynamical analysis and modeling of neuroimaging data and interpretation, discussing localization, modularity, and neuroimagers' tacit assumptions about how these two phenomena are related; controversies over correlation of fMRI data and social attributions (recently characterized for good or ill as \"voodoo correlations\"); and the standard inferential design approach in neuroimaging. Finally, the contributors take a more philosophical perspective, considering the nature of measurement in brain imaging, and offer a framework for novel neuroimaging data structures (effective and functional connectivity—\"graphs\").


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