title: A misleading implication of the metabolism scans of the brain.
abstract: Metabolism scans of the brain measure the quantity of energy consumed by parts of the brain while performing a cognitive task. This quantity of energy is wrongly considered to represent the amount of data processing by the related parts of the brain. Thus, a misleading conception of the relative parts of the cerebral hemispheres in performing cognitive tasks is created.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Studies, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Fidelman
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D011930:Reaction Time; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed