FMRI: Not the Only Way to Look at the Human Brain in Action
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Date
2006
Abstract
The Observer (September 2006) is to be commended for presenting a balanced view of fMRI research, resisting the megahype that characterizes so much of this literature. It is a pity, however, that you did not extend your coverage across the entire domain of cognitive neuroscience. As someone who began studying brain activity using a “…non-invasive, high-resolution, totally safe way to look at a human brain…” in 1961, I take exception to the assertion attributed to Joy Hirsh regarding fMRI that “This is the first time in history we have a non-invasive, high-resolution, totally safe way to look at a human brain,…to look at how the brain drives and controls behavior…”
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
APS Observer, v. 19, issue 11
Scholar Commons Citation
Diamond, David M., "FMRI: Not the Only Way to Look at the Human Brain in Action" (2006). Psychology Faculty Publications. 345.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/345
