What do you think is the least bullshit part of cognitive neuroscience?
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I think it’s likely that *some* fMRI results are meaningful, but it’s clear most aren’t, and there’s no way for outsiders to tell which are which. I don’t know whether there are clueful people in the field who have good heuristics for discriminating. Maybe we’ll know in ten years
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A good first-pass heuristic: How disputable is the fit between the concept and the measurement? The field is very hard to get a grip on, but single cell/low-level = good, fMRI/high-level = bad is not a good heuristic...
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Yeah! Grid cells and place cells have been identified in the mammalian hippocampus (lot of solid evidence on cats). These cells (and similar/related ones) serve as part of a larger system that seems to create some understanding of space (almost “map-like”)
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