Seeing is Not Believing: People Do Not Overvalue Brain Images
Seeing a beautifully lit up image of the human brain is powerful – maybe too powerful, worry many scientists. But if you think that brain images are the most persuasive form of scientific evidence out...
View ArticleVisual Recognition Study that Led to New fMRI Analysis Technique
Breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience: Highlighting influential research from the past 20 years This series explores influential papers in cognitive neuroscience, as measured by the number of times...
View ArticlefNIRS: The In-Between for Brain Activity in Real-World Settings
Guest Post by Nick Wan, Utah State University Imagine driving in a simulator while undergoing an fMRI. No, you won’t be lying down — this is not your typical large, chamber-like scanner. An instrument...
View ArticlePatterns of Brain Activity Match Vividness of Memories
Pixar’s Inside Out portrays memories as glowing individual spheres that we replay in our minds like a movie on a projector screen. But in real life, neuroscientists have found that memories are not...
View ArticleTaking Control of Your Brain Activity: New Neurofeedback Results
Summer is coming to an end, but imagine if your fun summer vacation experiences could later help you in addressing neuropsychological conditions. That’s a concept that inspires and motivates David...
View ArticleExploring the “Dark Side” of Brain Imaging
Q&A with Robert Thibault Guest Post by David Mehler Neuroimaging. For many people, this term invokes the thought of a photographer taking a snapshot of brain activity and then looking at the still....
View ArticleModels of Our Selves Reflected in Our Friends
Just like when an architect builds a scale model of a building, friends in your close-knit social circle build representational models of you. That’s how Robert Chavez, a social cognitive neuroscience...
View ArticlePredicting Working Memory Through Brain Activity Models
As a ballet dancer, Emily Avery has always had a great appreciation for people’s ability to execute complex movements, recall choreography, and internalize intricate musicality. Her love of dance is...
View ArticleMapping the Brain’s Visual Behavior One Tidbit at a Time
Q&A with Marlene Behrmann For the past 30 years, Marlene Behrmann has been on a mission to answer some of the biggest questions in cognitive neuroscience about how visual function in the brain maps...
View ArticleMaximizing the Number of Brains Studying the Brain
Q&A with Damien Fair, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Recipient Although the global pandemic has slowed his lab’s data collection to a halt, COVID-19 has nothing on cognitive neuroscientist Damien Fair....
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