- It’s important to keep in mind the limitations of fMRI and other neuroimaging technologies.
Most of them measure not brain activity directly but proxies of it, such as blood flow and oxygen
consumption. They also depend on complex software to translate faint signals into dramatic
images, software the accuracy of which critics have recently questioned. In my experience, brain
scientists who work with animals they can insert probes into are dismissive of fMRI, while brain
scientists who work with humans accept it as the best tool available.
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