Cognitive neuroscience from a behavioral perspective: A critique of chasing ghosts with Geiger counters

Behavior Analyst

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 161-173

  Faux, Steven F ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Cognitive neuroscience; ERP; fMRI; PET

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; NEUROANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036455782     PISSN: 07386729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03392055     Document Type: Article

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