Open Questions: High-level Brain Organization

Columbia University Functional MRI Research Center: Site contains a variety of information in fMRI, including a general overview, media coverage of fMRI, and archived lectures.

Fact or Phrenology?: March 2005 Scientific American sidebar, subtitled "The growing controversy over fMRI scans is forcing us to confront whether brain equals mind."
Magnetic Revelations: October 2001 Scientific American News Scan article, subtitled "Functional MRI highlights neurons receiving signals."
Road Map for the Mind: August 2001 Scientific American News Scan article, subtitled "Old mathematical theorems unfold the human brain."
Gambling - Like Food and Drugs - Produces Feelings of Reward in the Brain: May 2001 Scientific American news article about an fMRI study showing that gambling activates reward centers of the brain.
If You're Happy and You Know It...: February 2001 Scientific American news article about how personality traits can heavily influence the brain's response to emotional stimuli.

The Split Brain Revisited
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Scientific American, July 1998, pp. 50-55: 30 years ago the author pioneered in studies of the "split brain". This article reviews what has been learned since then about brain asymmetry and its effect on the operation of the mind.
The Machinery of Thought
Tim Beardsley
Scientific American, August 1997, pp. 78-83: How scanning technologies like MRI and PET are used to localize working memory in the prefrontal cortex of the brain.