{"id":141,"date":"2009-12-09T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-12-09T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:54:01","slug":"a-well-written-mainstream-article-on-fmri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/a-well-written-mainstream-article-on-fmri\/","title":{"rendered":"a well-written mainstream article on fMRI?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Bennett, of <a href=\"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\">prefrontal.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/atlantic-salmon-index\/\">dead salmon<\/a> fame, <a href=\"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/quote-of-the-week-logothetis\/\">links<\/a> to a really great Science News article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/feature\/id\/50295\/title\/Trawling_the_brain\">on the promises and pitfalls of fMRI<\/a>. As Bennett points out, the real gem of the article is the <a href=\"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/quote-of-the-week-logothetis\/\">&#8220;quote of the week&#8221;<\/a> from Nikos Logethetis (which I won&#8217;t spoil for you here; you&#8217;ll have to do just a little more work to get to it). But the article is full of many other insightful quotes from fMRI researchers, and manages to succinctly and accurately describe a number of recent controversies in the fMRI literature without sacrificing too much detail. Usually when I come across a mainstream article on fMRI, I pre-emptively slap the screen a few times before I start reading, because I know I&#8217;m about to get angry. Well, I did that this time too, so my hand hurts per usual, but at least this time I feel pretty good about it. Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/authored\/id\/98\/name\/Laura_Sanders\">Laura Sanders<\/a> for writing one of the best non-technical accounts I&#8217;ve seen of the current state of fMRI research (and that, unlike a number of other articles in this vein, actually ends on a balanced and optimistic note).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Bennett, of prefrontal.org and dead salmon fame, links to a really great Science News article on the promises and pitfalls of fMRI. As Bennett points out, the real gem of the article is the &#8220;quote of the week&#8221; from Nikos Logethetis (which I won&#8217;t spoil for you here; you&#8217;ll have to do just a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/a-well-written-mainstream-article-on-fmri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a well-written mainstream article on fMRI?!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,4],"tags":[697,70,690,68,69],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEZxN-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}