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Mind and brain : a critical appraisal of cognitive neuroscience
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ISBN: 9780262015967 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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The war between mentalism and behaviorism : on the accessibility of mental processes
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ISBN: 0805833617 Year: 2000 Volume: *1 Publisher: Mahwah, N. J. London L. Erlbaum Associates

The new phrenology : the limits of localizing cognitive processes in the brain
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ISBN: 0262210177 9780262210171 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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"William Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most important methodological tools - a critical analysis of the fundamental assumptions that underlie day-to-day empirical research. In this book Uttal addresses the question of localization: whether psychological processes can be defined and isolated in a way that permits them to be associated with particular brain regions." "New, noninvasive imaging technologies allow us to observe the brain while it is actively engaged in mental activities. Uttal cautions, however, that the excitement of these new research tools can lead to a neuroreductionist wild goose chase. With more and more cognitive neuroscientific data forthcoming, it becomes critical to question their limitations as well as their potential. Uttal reviews the history of localization theory, presents the difficulties of defining cognitive processes, and examines the conceptual and technical difficulties that should make us cautious about falling victim to what may be a "neo-phrenological" fad."--BOOK JACKET.


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An autocorrelation theory of form detection
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ISBN: 047089654X Year: 1975 Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates,


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Mind and brain
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ISBN: 0262526654 026201596X 9786613258793 128325879X 0262298902 0262298031 9780262298902 9781283258791 9780262526654 9780262015967 6613258792 9780262298032 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press


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Reliability in cognitive neuroscience
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ISBN: 1283953188 0262312042 0262018527 0262312050 9780262312042 9780262312035 0262312034 9781283953184 9780262018524 9780262312059 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly claim that brain images generated by new brain imaging technologies reflect, correlate, or represent cognitive processes. This book warns against these claims, arguing that, despite its utility in anatomic and physiological applications, brain imaging research has not provided consistent evidence for correlation with cognition. It bases this argument on a review of the empirical literature, pointing to variability in data not only among subjects within individual experiments but also in the meta-analytical approach that pools data from different experiments.

Psychomythics
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ISBN: 1282374486 9786612374487 1410607615 9781410607614 9780805845846 0805845844 0805845844 9781135623722 1135623724 9781135623678 1135623678 9781135623715 1135623716 9780415651172 0415651174 Year: 2003 Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. L. Erlbaum Associates

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Psychology deals with the most complex subject matter of any science. As such, it is subject to misunderstandings, artifacts, and just simple errors of data, logic, and interpretation. This book teases out the details of some of the sources of these errors. It considers errors in psychological data and theories that arise from confusing endogenous and exogenous causal forces in perceptual research, misinterpreting the effects of inevitable natural laws as psychological phenomena, improper application of statistics and measurement, and flawed assumptions. Examples of each of these sources of error are presented and discussed. Finally, the book concludes that a return to a revitalized kind of behaviorism is preferred, rather than continuing on the current cognitive path.

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