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Functional MRI Limitations and Aspirations

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Neural Correlates of Thinking

Part of the book series: On Thinking ((ONTHINKING,volume 1))

Abstract

Most would agree that knowing precisely what was happening in the brain during the act of thinking would help in our pursuit to understand what thinking really is. This chapter describes the basics, limits, and future directions of one of the more effective tools we have to observe the human brain while it is functioning — functional MRI. Functional MRI emerged in the early 1990s, and has since grown explosively in utility. In this chapter, an in-depth exploration is carried out of what limits functional MRI to a spatial resolution of millimeters and a temporal resolution of seconds. In addition, issues of how sensitive functional MRI is in detecting brain activity and how deeply we can interpret the signal changes are explored. Lastly, the chapter ends with a discussion on how imaging might be essential, or perhaps irrelevant, to understanding thinking.

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Bandettini, P.A. (2009). Functional MRI Limitations and Aspirations. In: Kraft, E., Gulyás, B., Pöppel, E. (eds) Neural Correlates of Thinking. On Thinking, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68044-4_2

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