Debate grows over the over-interpretation and misuse of fMRI scans

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Function MRI, or fMRI, promises to map and discover new patterns of brain activity that were previously inaccessible. But are scientists so caught up in the possibilities of modern neuroscience that they are missing something? Guest: Jonah Lehrer, author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”

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