How meaningful are neural correlates?

[differenceblog]

Larry Cahill's 2006 neuroscience review points out that functional and structural differences between male and female brains may not always point to behavioral differences. One interesting example of this is Hugdahl et al (2006) study which found no sex difference in mental rotation tasks on either response time or accuracy, but did find

Comments

[thedeli]

You mean Norwegian undergrads don't represent humanity-at-large?
Because I've been trying desperately to recruit some. In South Louisiana.

It's not easy.

[differenceblog]

Ooh, that must be hard. What are you baiting the traps with?

[thedeli]

Lutefisk! What else?

[differenceblog]

see, that strikes me as a problem, since it's a well known fact that consuming Lutefisk renders you invisible to MRI machines.

[thedeli]

No!

*runs to the jstor machine*