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Aside: fMRI is under quite the firestorm lately for use as a tool of mental processing. It's a great tool for head trauma or other medical diagnostics. But for
by Balgair 6y ago
Aside: fMRI is under quite the firestorm lately for use as a tool of mental processing. It's a great tool for head trauma or other medical diagnostics. But for interpreting the brain's activity, it's not what it's been billed as. The now classic issue is the 'Dead Salmon' experiments in 2009 out of Dartmouth. That paper was a lightening rod and the arguments are yet to die down; the field is in flux (pardon the pun).
https://www.improbable.com/2020/06/05/fmri-brain-research-the-dead-salmon-has-lots-of-company/ https://www.improbable.com/2020/06/05/fmri-brain-research-th...
- mcguire 6y agoYes, I was hesitant about that, but I was operating under the assumptions of the described experiments. :-)