Neuromyth: Brain Scanners `See` Thinking
(WorldNews Health)

There are hundreds of intriguing headlines that combine with the general feeling of Big Brother watching your every move to result in the myth that we can somehow `see` brains thinking. Headlines like `Brain Scan that Shows Researchers What You Are THINKING About` are even more disturbing and declare, `brain scans now allow researchers to know exactly what a person is imagining.` 109 Other headlines like, `Mind-Reading Computer Instantly Decodes People´s Thoughts` 110 and `This Camera Records the Thinking Brain` 111 sound amazing, but less so when you see that they relate to mice studies and spatial memory, a sub-element of complete cognition. Where the Myth Comes From `Can a Brain Scan Tell...