http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/07/understanding-brain-imaging/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/07/understanding-brain-imaging/#comment-12078 Thu, 13 May 2010 17:24:22 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=317#comment-12078 Are you familiar with the book “Picturing Personhood” by Joseph Dumit? It provides a strong critique of fMRI imaging, some of the pitfalls being that among participants from, say, a “control group” and a “depressed group”, contradictory data from the brain scans of members of each group is simply removed from the final “image”, often participants are comprised solely of white males, and there is huge disagreement between the mathematicians that create the algorithms that turn the quantitative data produced by a scan into a qualitative coloured image. Some people are calling these scans “the new phrenology”…

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/07/understanding-brain-imaging/#comment-3421 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:38:25 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=317#comment-3421 very excellent

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