Brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience: Toward strong inference in attributing function to structure.

摘要: Cognitive neuroscience has emerged from the neurosciences and cognitive psychology as a scientific discipline that aims at determination of "how brain function gives rise to mental activity" (S. M. Kosslyn & L. Shin, 1992, p. 146). While research in combines many levels neuroscientific psychological analyses, modern imaging techniques monitor activity during behavioral or operations have significantly contributed emergence this discipline. The conclusions deduced these studies are inherently localizationistic nature; other words, they describe functions being localized focal regions (brain defined region, phi, is involved specific function, psi). A broad discussion about virtues limitations such may help avoid mentalistic localizationism (i.e., attribution concepts happiness, morality, consciousness structure) illustrates importance convergence with information generated by different strategies (such as, for example, evidence which effects experimental manipulations local neuronal processes on assessed). Progress capitalizing brain-imaging investigate questions form "brain structure event phi associated psi" be impeded because way inferences typically formulated literature. conceptual framework advance interpretation data describing relationships between phenomena provided.