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A similar debate goes on in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or neuropsychology/neurophysiology: can cognitive phenomena--like emotion, learning, memory, affect, etc-
by raincom 8y ago
A similar debate goes on in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or neuropsychology/neurophysiology: can cognitive phenomena--like emotion, learning, memory, affect, etc--be localized in the brain? can fMRI solve this localization-distribution issue?
Whatever we have known so far, early phases of the input system (sensory) and later phases of the output system (motor) can be localized. Even there is an overlap between the input and the output system.
- simonh 8y agoThen there’s the problem that fMRI is hardly providing us with a complete view of everything going on in the brain. The same goes for the other instruments we have. Who knows what parts of the puzzle we’re not yet even seeing?
- raincom 8y agoThink of thermometer, which everyone of us uses. It doesn't tell much about what is going on inside, but it tells us that something is NOT normal esp out of normal body temp range. Does fMRI play the role of thermometer? Yes when there are injuries; but injury itself plays the role of the thermometer. fMRI is not useful in settling the disputes about how brain makes the mind--esp higher cognitive processes.