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Bad fMRI research
January 7, 2008 by John Server (not verified), 1 year 43 weeks ago
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If you put people in an MRI scanner and ask them to think about an apple and about a pear, the fMRI scans will find no differences between the two types of events. Ergo, different thoughts don't exist, according to this logic. This study is embarrassing. The spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity of all our neuroimaging techniques is too poor. Not that I believe in ESP, I just find it disgraceful that resources are wasted this way.