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If a PET image is recorded while a patient is reading,many areas of activity on the PET image will have nothing to do with the cognitive activity of reading per se.That is why cognitive neuroscientists often use


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Prestige

The respect and admiration that an individual, occupation, or organization is held in by others, often reflecting a perceived high status or quality.

Spurious Relationship

A false or misleading correlation between two variables that appear to be connected but are actually related due to the presence of a third, hidden factor.

Control Variable

A variable that is kept constant during an experiment to ensure that any changes in the outcome are due to the independent variable.

Independent Variables

Factors in a study or experiment that are altered or adjusted in order to examine their impacts on the variables that depend on them.

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