HBM2008 Symposium
On the Relevance of Functional Neuroimaging to Psychology
Chair: Greig de Zubicaray, Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
This symposium will discuss the relevance of functional neuroimaging methods to answering questions posed by the fields of experimental and cognitive psychology. It addresses an important controversy that is central to the application of human brain mapping methods within
psychology and one that that has resulted in an increasing number of journal special issues, articles, book chapters, and texts in recent years. This symposium brings together the major proponents of different perspectives in this controversy, allowing each to provide an overview of
their respective positions.
Learning Objectives: Having completed this symposium, participants will be able to:
• Understand the nature of hypotheses that are amenable to testing with neuroimaging methods;
• Understand the types of inferences made in neuroimaging experiments;
• Identify the key philosophical issues in the debate about the relevance of neuroimaging to
psychology.
Beyond Phrenology: Neuroimaging and Cognitive Ontologies
Russell A. Poldrack, Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
What is Cognitive Neuroimaging For?
Max Coltheart, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Slides
A Philosophy Primer for Neuroimaging
Greig de Zubicaray, Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Slides
From Neuroimaging to Mental Structure: Reversed Associations, Monotonicity and Forward Inference
Rik Henson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Slides