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Several years ago, a colleague in the developmental clinic asked me to tell him what I thought about a brain mapping EEG report brought in by a parent. The report made a number of bold pronouncements about the child's brain function, such as, “Decreased current in the fusiform gyrus indicates face-processing difficulties.” From my research using EEG to study the pathophysiology of developmental disabilities, I knew that making even a single conclusion about group data took years of painstaking development of cognitive experiments and obsessive analysis of the data using a variety of signal-processing techniques. The notion that automatic software could validly produce several conclusions from a few minutes' worth of spontaneous EEG data seemed far-fetched.
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