Using functional neuroimaging to test theories of cognition: A selective survey of studies from 2007 to 2011 as a contribution to the Decade of the Mind Initiative

What is it about?

How much the evidence obtained by the study of the neurophysiological correlates of cognitive functions investigated by using the fMRI, has contributed to the refinements of our knowledge about their characteristics and functioning with respect to the evidence obtained by using behavioral data? The answer in the paper.

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Why is it important?

The investigation of the cognitive functions by using their neurophysiological correlates, requires the use of experimental protocols devised to take in account both sensitivity (a claim that brain region X will always be active when cognitive process C is being executed) and specificity (the claim that brain region X will not be active except when cognitive process C is being executed).