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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Scientific Methodology

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  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) generates colorful brain images indicating activity, often used as evidence in neuroscience.
  • Critics question the scientific value of neuroimaging due to assumptions in data analysis procedures.
  • Existing debates focus on technique assumptions rather than their role in data interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To shift the debate on neuroimaging validity towards the interpretation process.
  • To reframe data analysis techniques as interpretive lenses in neuroimaging.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of data analysis techniques in functional magnetic resonance imaging.
  • Examining the role of selective data transformation in rendering neuroimaging data interpretable.

Main Results:

  • Data analysis techniques act as selective lenses, focusing patterns within neuroimaging data.
  • The choice and application of analysis techniques are influenced by researchers' methodological and theoretical commitments.

Conclusions:

  • Neuroimaging data interpretation is shaped by the analytical techniques employed.
  • Recognizing data analysis as an interpretive lens highlights its dual role in enabling and potentially biasing scientific understanding.