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The box of neuroimaging has reached a watershed. mind imaging study has been the resource of many advances in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive technological know-how over the past decade, yet contemporary evaluations and rising tendencies are elevating foundational problems with method, size, and idea. certainly, matters over interpretation of mind maps have created severe controversies in social neuroscience, and, extra vital, element to a bigger set of concerns that lie on the middle of the whole mind mapping company. during this quantity, prime students -- neuroimagers and philosophers of brain -- reexamine those critical matters and discover present controversies that experience arisen in cognitive technology, cognitive neuroscience, laptop technology, and sign processing. The participants handle either statistical and dynamical research and modeling of neuroimaging info and interpretation, discussing localization, modularity, and neuroimagers' tacit assumptions approximately how those phenomena are comparable; controversies over correlation of fMRI facts and social attributions (recently characterised for stable or in poor health as "voodoo correlations"); and the normal inferential layout strategy in neuroimaging. eventually, the individuals take a extra philosophical viewpoint, contemplating the character of size in mind imaging, and supply a framework for novel neuroimaging info buildings (effective and sensible connectivity -- "graphs").Contributors: William Bechtel, Bharat Biswal, Matthew Brett, Martin Bunzl, Max Coltheart, Karl J. Friston, pleasure J. Geng, Clark Glymour, Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stephen José Hanson, Trevor Harley, Gilbert Harman, James V. Haxby, Rik N. Henson, Nancy Kanwisher, Colin Klein, Richard Loosemore, Sébastien Meriaux, Chris Mole, Jeanette A. Mumford, Russell A. Poldrack, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Richard C. Richardson, Alexis Roche, Adina L. Roskies, Pia Rotshtein, Rebecca Saxe, Philipp Sterzer, Bertrand Thirion, Edward Vul