A lot of the studies that I cast my Neuroskeptical eye over are related to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
This is because, in my opinion, quite a lot of today's fMRI work suffers frommethodologicalflaws. But that's not to say that all fMRI work is suspect, or, worse, that there's something inherently unscientific about fMRI as such. fMRI's a tool, an amazing one in a lot of ways, but like any tool it needs to be used well. Along with others, I've criticized various aspects of recent fMRI practice, but only because it's frustrating to see such a powerful tool not being used to its full potential.
So I was very pleased by a recent paper by Sabatinelli et al,
The Timing of Emotional Discrimination in Human Amygdala and Ventral Visual Cortex
. The authors set out to test a hypothesis - that seeing an emotionally charged picture would activate ...
