William R. Uttal: Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience

@article{Gobet2014WilliamRU,
  title={William R. Uttal: Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience},
  author={Fernand R. Gobet},
  journal={Minds and Machines},
  year={2014},
  volume={24},
  pages={221-226},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17983334}
}
In this book, William Uttal provides a critical review of cognitive neuroscience, focusing on a specific question: What do the brain-imaging techniques developed in the last two decades or so—mostly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET)—tell us about the head-mind problem?
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