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Redeployed functions versus spreading activation: A potential confound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Colin Klein
Colin Klein
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Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607. cvklein@uic.edu http://tigger.uic.edu/~cvklein/links.html
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Abstract

Anderson's meta-analysis of fMRI data is subject to a potential confound. Areas identified as active may make no functional contribution to the task being studied, or may indicate regions involved in the coordination of functional networks rather than information processing per se. I suggest a way in which fMRI adaptation studies might provide a useful test between these alternatives.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 280 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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