This illuminating NPR story by Jon Hamilton explains the controversy behind the reliability and quality of fMRI imaging to understand brain function.
It points to our vulnerability to be swayed by visual depictions of data which are appealing in their clarity and familiarity, but are actually simplifications of complicated data. They look like other sorts of diagrams we can understand, but the all the necessary information isn't expressed in the images.
This has armed me with some much-needed skepticism for studies that rely on interpretations of fMRI readouts.
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