What Has Functional Neuroimaging Told Us about the Mind ? So Many Examples , So Little

What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind (so far)?

cognition is by cognitive neuroimaging – by recording neural activity in a person’s brain while the recorded person is carrying out some cognitive activity. There are numerous different reasons for doing this kind of work. I will consider only one of these reasons, namely, to try to learn more about cognition itself. All other motivations for doing cognitive neuroimaging (e.g., to seek to local...

Chapter 14 Is there anything special about working memory ?

In a recent article entitled ‘What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind (so far)?’ Coltheart ( 2006 ) concludes that the answer to this question is: ‘nothing’. The essential reason for this gloomy assessment about the value of functional neuroimaging for cognitive psychology boils down to this essential argument, namely, that since psychological theories do not make predictions ab...

Using functional neuroimaging to test theories of cognition: a selective survey of studies from 2007 to 2011 as a contribution to the Decade of the Mind Initiative.

Most current studies in the field of cognitive neuroscience are based on the recording of neuroimages from a participant’s brain while that participant is engaged in carrying out some mental activity. The idea is that, by recording the brain activity that accompanies mental processes, we learn where in the brain those mental processes take place. But also it is hoped that such work will shed li...

What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind? So many examples, so little space.

is it that one distinguishes between psychological theories? The dominant strategy is to test for dissociations. Let us say that theory a (T a) is a proposal about a mechanism that underlies some behavior. Theory b (T b) is an alternative proposal about a mechanism to account for the same behavior. Put differently, according to T a , there is some system of psychological processes that underlie...

What has (neuro)psychology told us about the mind (so far)? A reply to Coltheart (2006).