The roles of functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology in the development of cognitive theory: A reply to Coltheart

摘要

We would like to thank Max Coltheart for the supportive and stimulating way in which his critique of our book is written. There are many things over which he and we are in agreement, in particular over the importance of the cognitive level of theorizing. Moreover, we would both appear to hold that to rely on behavioural experimentation on normal adults alone would probably prove insufficient to advance cognitive theory rapidly. Some types of brain-related evidence will be required in addition. Where we differ is on what type of brain-related evidence this should be. Coltheart would appear to want to limit relevant brain-related evidence principally to neurop-sychological findings, but we want to extend it to the results of other cognitive neuroscience methodologies, and in particular to functional imaging.