Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Political neuroscience/reply (6)

But MRI's can and do show us huge amounts about where in the brain things are happening, right? I mean, I'm seeing studies (again, media BBC esque) about things like Synesthesia which would seem to suggest that part of the issue is that the mental/cognative mapping for things like "smell" and "sight" lie close to each other and get mapped incorrectly. Or the MRI's of some stroke victims who wind up with various types of aphesia, which show areas of the brain that might well control aspects of language.

Do you think those are fully useful and valid uses of fMri, or are these also on the "use with caution" page?