Scientific communication involves representing data in the form of graphs, a lot of cognitive science includes fMRI data of brain regions, which have often been simplified as areas of some specific cognitive function. The popular press coverage of brain imaging has created “neuro-realism,” a tendency to believe data alongside brain images is credible. In this preresigration we recreated experiment 1. In experiment 1, three short “scholarly” (actually fictional) articles about the results of brain imaging studies were provided to participants to read along with various figure of data* (that were not necessarily aligned with what the article came to conclude to) to then review and critique through 3 statements which they were asked to provide a response in correspondence to a 4-pt scale based on how strongly they agreed with the statements presented.