Practice question · True or false
A brain region that activates during a language task has been shown to be necessary for it.
Hints
- Compare what imaging shows with what a lesion shows.
- Activation is engagement; necessity requires that removing it breaks the function.
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False
Why
False, and this is the most common misreading of imaging results. Activation shows a region participates; only impairment after damage, or after temporary disruption, shows it is required. The two methods are complementary precisely because they answer different questions.
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