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xkcd Explains Why Brain Scans Can Be Misleading

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So much of neuroscience is now based entirely on fMRI studies. But as Randall Munroe’s latest webcomic points out, brain scans are not without their limitations.

Indeed, as important and illuminating as fMRI studies are, they often don’t tell the whole story. More on this here, here, and here.

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