Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 33, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

Redeployed functions versus spreading activation: A potential confound

Colin Kleina1

a1 Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607. cvklein@uic.edu http://tigger.uic.edu/~cvklein/links.html

Abstract

Anderson's meta-analysis of fMRI data is subject to a potential confound. Areas identified as active may make no functional contribution to the task being studied, or may indicate regions involved in the coordination of functional networks rather than information processing per se. I suggest a way in which fMRI adaptation studies might provide a useful test between these alternatives.

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