Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data?
Poldrack used a Bayesian framework to show that reverse inference, concluding that a cognitive process is involved because a brain region was active, is only as reliable as the region's selectivity: how often activation there reflects the process of interest compared with how often the region activates for other tasks.
Poldrack used a Bayesian framework to show that reverse inference, concluding that a cognitive process is involved because a brain region was active, is only as reliable as the region's selectivity: how often activation there reflects the process of interest compared with how often the region activates for other tasks.
Written from the published summary of the paper's argument (a 2006 commentary record, Medical Research Council cognition and brain sciences unit bibliography), 2026-11-03; the OpenAlex record carried no abstract.
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