
BSP 83: William Uttal: Is brain imaging the new phrenology?
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Problem With Valid Imaging Studies
It's very hard to study any psychological process without involving all other psychological processes. That means that the brain is being challenged to do something that it really probably can't do. The chapters in my book that are separated out to different topics from each other, I just had to do to keep the book from being an unintelligible mishmash. Where we have learning the brain may have processes that are concomitant or correlated with it. But they are of a different language, a different level of discourse,. A different level of analysis.
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