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Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by avazhi on Saturday October 19, 2024 @11:16PM (#41892603)
It’s impossible to overstate how crude and useless blood flow MRI studies are, at least relative to the hype they receive.

Spoiler alert: brains require a lot of blood, constantly, just to not die. Looking at blood flow on an MRI to determine neural circuitry has to deal with the double whammy of both an extremely crude tool and a correlation/causation fallacy.

This article and the study are arguably useless.

Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by agumonkey on Sunday October 20, 2024 @03:29AM (#41893622)
The connectome and brain mapping efforts might be a better research path for the coming years I guess