{"id":1613,"date":"2017-01-14T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2017-12-30T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T16:53:41","slug":"book-review-the-promise-and-perils-of-fmri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/book-review-the-promise-and-perils-of-fmri\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: the Promise and Perils of fMRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_98194970_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1615 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_98194970_Credit-1024x469.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_98194970_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_98194970_Credit-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_98194970_Credit-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russell Poldrack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v541\/n7636\/full\/541156a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a> <em>Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in our Minds<\/em>, by Barbara J. Sahakian and Julia Gottwald.<\/p>\n<p>As Poldrack emphasizes, it&#8217;s falling-off-a-log easy to overestimate the power of fMRI: in fields such as lie-detection and neuro-prediction, we regularly see hype and misunderstanding rather than sober and substantial understanding.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite line from the review: &#8220;[N]euroimaging is usually only as solid as the behavioural research that underpins it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The take-away for teachers: brain images from neuroscience-world are compelling, but we should be sure to have psychology research as well before we make changes in our schools and classrooms.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"bk1\" class=\"review-title\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Poldrack reviews Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in our Minds, by Barbara J. Sahakian and Julia Gottwald. As Poldrack emphasizes, it&#8217;s falling-off-a-log easy to overestimate the power of fMRI: in fields such as lie-detection and neuro-prediction, we regularly see hype and misunderstanding rather than sober and substantial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,19],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-neuroscience","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}