Interpreting brain images – reflections on an adolescent field
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Functional brain imaging is maturing, but still adolescent. It has developed a rich toolbox of experimental and data analytical techniques and is addressing an ever expanding range of questions about brain and mind – at various levels of methodological rigor. Some of these questions (e.g. romantic love) are difficult to pin down with science. Occasionally results are naively overinterpreted in scientific papers and in the media. It is appropriate then to reflect on our basic assumptions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010