title: Functional neuroimaging can support causal claims about brain function.
abstract: Cognitive neuroscientists habitually deny that functional neuroimaging can furnish causal information about the relationship between brain events and behavior. However, imaging studies do provide causal information about those relationships-although not causal certainty. Although popular portrayals of functional neuroimaging tend to attribute too much inferential power to the technique, we should restrain ourselves from ascribing it too little.
authors.affiliation: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. mweb@psych.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Sharon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Thompson-Schill
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans