Current Status and Future Needs
William R. Uttal · The MIT Press eBooks · 2012
In this chapter, the author mentions the lack of consistency and reliability in brain imaging studies but discusses some of the slowly emerging answers to the fundamental questions. Doubt about the capability of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to offer concrete results on the brain mechanisms of cognitive processes is discussed along with the lack of a Hebb model to answer problems related to the mind–brain relationship. Differences in the meta-analysis results suggest that this method is not feasible for cognitive neuroscience studies. The book overall presents the inability of brain imaging systems to locate the region of brain activity, which is under cognitive stimuli. Suggestions for cognitive brain imaging researchers are presented to help them resolve the problem of linking brain images and cognitive processes.