{"id":907,"date":"2011-12-19T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2011-12-19T05:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:01:42","slug":"what-ben-parker-wants-you-to-know-about-neuroimaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/what-ben-parker-wants-you-to-know-about-neuroimaging\/","title":{"rendered":"what Ben Parker wants you to know about neuroimaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehps.net\/ehp\/issues\/2011\/v13iss4_December2011\/13_4_Yarkoni.pdf\">a short opinion piece<\/a> in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehps.net\/ehp\/\">The European Health Psychologist<\/a> that discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehps.net\/ehp\/issues\/2011\/v13iss4_December2011\/13_4_Yarkoni.pdf\">some of the caveats and limits of functional MRI<\/a>. It&#8217;s a short and (I think) pretty readable piece; I touch on a couple of issues I&#8217;ve discussed frequently in <a href=\"http:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/papers\/Yarkoni_PPS_commentary.pdf\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/papers\/Yarkoni_et_al_TICS.pdf\">papers<\/a> as well as here on the blog&#8211;namely, the relatively low power of most fMRI analyses and the difficulties inherent in drawing causal inferences from neuroimaging results.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, though, I&#8217;ve finally fulfilled my long held goal of sneaking a Spiderman reference into an academic article (though, granted, one that wasn&#8217;t peer-reviewed). It would be going too far to say I can die happy now, but at least I can have an extra large serving of ice cream for dessert tonight without feeling guilty*. And no, I&#8217;m not going to spoil the surprise by revealing what Spidey has to do with fMRI. Though I will say that if you actually fall for the hook and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehps.net\/ehp\/issues\/2011\/v13iss4_December2011\/13_4_Yarkoni.pdf\">go read the article<\/a> just to find that out, you&#8217;re likely to be sorely disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* So okay, the truth is, I never, <em>ever<\/em> feel guilty for eating ice cream, no matter the serving size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a short opinion piece in the latest issue of The European Health Psychologist that discusses some of the caveats and limits of functional MRI. It&#8217;s a short and (I think) pretty readable piece; I touch on a couple of issues I&#8217;ve discussed frequently in other papers as well as here on the blog&#8211;namely, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/what-ben-parker-wants-you-to-know-about-neuroimaging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">what Ben Parker wants you to know about neuroimaging<\/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":[48,3,325],"tags":[697,557,50,536,558],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEZxN-eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}