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Title: From scanner to sound bite : issues in interpreting and reporting sex differences in the brain
Related: Current directions in psychological science, Vol. 19, No. 5, (2010), p.280-283
DOI: 10.1177/0963721410383248
Publisher: Sage Publications
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 170200 Cognitive Sciences 170100 Psychology
Author/Creator: Fine, Cordelia
Description: Neuroimaging research is yielding reports of sex differences in the brain. Yet the likelihood of spurious findings of sex differences, the teething problems of new technology, the obscurity of the relation between brain structure and psychological function, and difficulties inferring mental states from neuroimaging data all require us to be considerably cautious in interpreting such results. Unfortunately, these issues are often overlooked in popular accounts. Together with a tendency for people to regard neuroscientific information as more scientific than behavioral data, and as indicative of male and female "nature", these issues point to the worrisome possibility of public misunderstanding of what contemporary neuroscience tells us about gender.
Description: 4 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences
Subject Keyword: 170100 Psychology
Subject Keyword: neuroimaging
Subject Keyword: gender
Subject Keyword: science communication
Subject Keyword: neuroethics
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Philosophy

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