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  • Neuroimaging

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  • Cognitive theories often assume an isomorphic relationship between mental states and brain activity.
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a tool used to investigate these relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the inferential challenges of using fMRI data in cognitive science.
  • To examine the impact of fMRI findings on the embodied cognition framework.

Main Methods:

  • Discussed inferential difficulties in using fMRI for cognitive science.
  • Analyzed fMRI studies investigating conceptual feature access versus direct experience.

Main Results:

  • fMRI studies show accessing conceptual features activates cortical regions anterior to those activated during direct experience.
  • This neural dissociation challenges the strong form of embodied cognition theory.

Conclusions:

  • fMRI data, despite inferential complexities, provides valuable convergent evidence for cognitive theories.
  • Observed neural dissociations are prompting novel perspectives on perceptual and conceptual representations.