Is neuroimaging useless for understanding the mind ?

Max Coltheart, Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in Australia :

“No amount of knowledge about the hardware of a computer will tell you anything serious about the nature of the software that the computer runs. In the same way, no facts about the activity of the brain could be used to confirm or refute some information-processing model of cognition.”

Read the complete article on Steve Handel's Blog Emotion Machine.

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