{"id":4532,"date":"2019-04-27T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2019-04-23T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:24:17","slug":"no-brain-scans-cant-see-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/no-brain-scans-cant-see-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Brain Scans Can&#8217;t See You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at NPJ Science of Learning, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa <a href=\"https:\/\/npjscilearncommunity.nature.com\/users\/19663-tracey-tokuhama-espinosa\/posts\/42620-deciphering-fact-from-fiction-about-the-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debunks the myth<\/a> that &#8220;brain scans see thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AdobeStock_129959535_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4542\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AdobeStock_129959535_Credit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AdobeStock_129959535_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AdobeStock_129959535_Credit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AdobeStock_129959535_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In brief, Tokuhama-Espinosa argues that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each brain imaging machine can, at best, measure a single dimension (electrical, chemical, or structural) of one sub-skill set &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No imaging machine can measure thought, only a sub-element of a thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole article is worth a read. Tokuhama-Espinosa has long made wise contributions to the field of Mind, Brain, Education. Her writing always merits attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/npjscilearncommunity.nature.com\/users\/19663-tracey-tokuhama-espinosa\/posts\/42620-deciphering-fact-from-fiction-about-the-brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,19],"class_list":["post-4532","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\/4532","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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}