BS 156 Russell Poldrack talks about Brain Imaging (fMRI)
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Stanford psychologist, Dr Russell A. Poldrack, author of The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts. We discuss a brief history of the use of fMRI brain imaging with an emphasis on how to avoid the mistakes that plagued the field early on. Listeners will come away with an appreciation of both the promise and limitations of brain imaging, including an understanding of why it is NOT ready for use as a lie detector.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to brain science, the |
| 0:05.0 | brain science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in |
| 0:08.7 | neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brains make us human. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 156. |
| 0:20.0 | Before I tell you about today's guest, I want to remind you that you can get complete |
| 0:25.8 | show notes and episode transcripts at my website brain science podcast.com. You can send me feedback at brain science podcast at gmail.com and you can also |
| 0:36.5 | submit voicemail at speakpipe.com for slash Doc Artemis. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's guest is Dr Russell Poldrak, the author of The New Mind Readers |
| 0:49.0 | What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reve reveal about our thoughts. |
| 0:54.0 | Dr. Poldrak is a professor of psychology at Stanford University |
| 0:59.0 | and a recognized expert in the field of functional MRI. If you are a long time fan of brain science, you know that I am something of an FMI skeptic, yet it is an inescapable fact that the use of fMRI has revolutionized our |
| 1:17.2 | study of how the human brain works. Thus this is an extremely timely discussion. |
| 1:24.0 | I'll be back after the interview to highlight the key ideas |
| 1:28.0 | and to share a few brief announcements. |
| 1:38.0 | Russ Polderick, welcome to brain science. It's an honor to have you on my podcast. |
| 1:40.0 | Thanks, it's great to be here. |
| 1:42.0 | So obviously the goal of today... Thanks, it's great to be here. |
| 1:43.0 | So obviously the goal of today's podcast is to talk about your book, The New Mind Readers, |
| 1:49.0 | what neuroimaging can and cannot reveal about our thoughts. But would you mind starting out by telling |
| 1:56.0 | us a little bit about yourself? Sure, yeah. So I studied psychology as an undergraduate, |
| 2:02.1 | though was also very interested in philosophy, |
| 2:04.6 | and then went to graduate school |
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