Putting A Critical Eye On Brain Imaging Studies [NPR.org]

Hardly a week goes by without some brain imaging study making the rounds in science news.

Last week we read that women had similar patterns of brain activation in brain regions associated with emotion, reward and affiliations when looking at images of their dogs and of their children. Last month we read that a man in a vegetative state who was shown a Hitchcock thriller had patterns of brain activity similar to those of healthy participants who watched the same film. Last spring we read that children with musical training — compared to similar children with no musical training — had greater activation in some brain regions associated with executive function while completing a battery of cognitive tests. The list, of course, goes on.

[For more of this story, written by Tania Lombrozo, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/...rain-imaging-studies]