Hanson S.J., Bunzl M. Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping

Bradford Books, MIT Press, 2010. — 344 p.The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed. Brain imaging research has been the source of many advances in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive science over the last decade, but recent critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Indeed, concerns over interpretation of brain maps have created serious controversies in social neuroscience, and, more important, point to a larger set of issues that lie at the heart of the entire brain mapping enterprise. In this volume, leading scholars-neuroimagers and philosophers of mind-reexamine these central issues and explore current controversies that have arisen in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, and signal processing.The contributors address both statistical and dynamical analysis and modeling of neuroimaging data and interpretation, discussing localization, modularity, and neuroimagers' tacit assumptions about how these two phenomena are related; controversies over correlation of fMRI data and social attributions (recently characterized for good or ill as "voodoo correlations"); and the standard inferential design approach in neuroimaging. Finally, the contributors take a more philosophical perspective, considering the nature of measurement in brain imaging, and offer a framework for novel neuroimaging data structures (effective and functional connectivity-"graphs").Location and Representation
A Critique of Functional Localizers
Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers
Commentary on Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers
An Exchange about Localism
Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data: High-Dimensional Spaces for Neural and Cognitive Representations
Inference and New Data Structures
Begging the Question: The Nonindependence Error in fMRI Data Analysis
On the Proper Role of Nonindependent ROI Analysis: A Commentary on Vul and Kanwisher
On the Advantages of Not Having to Rely on Multiple Comparison Corrections
Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI
Words and Pictures in Reports of fMRI Research
Discovering How Brains Do Things
Design and the Signal
Resting-State Brain Connectivity
Subtraction and Beyond: The Logic of Experimental Designs for Neuroimaging
Advancements in fMRI Methods: What Can They Inform about the Functional Organization of the Human Ventral Stream?
Intersubject Variability in fMRI Data: Causes, Consequences, and Related Analysis Strategies
by Jean-Baptiste Poline, Bertrand Thirion, Alexis Roche, and Sebastien Meriaux
The Underdetermination of Theory by Data
Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance: The Perils of Pictures
Brains and Minds: On the Usefulness of Localization Data to Cognitive Psychology
Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes
What Is Functional Neuroimaging For?