CGSC 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nasal Spray, Caffeine, Nasal Administration
19 Mar 2018
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Conditions that differ in the engagement of some mental process are compared and regions that show differences in activation between those conditions are inferred to take part in the target mental process (e. g. , moving items vs. stationary baseline). Grossman, e. d. , & blake, r. (2001). Brain activity evoked by inverted and imagined biological motion. Found that a small area in the superior temporal sulcus (sts) was more active when viewing biological motion than viewing scrambled motion. In a different study the authors found that ffa was activated more by biological motion than by scrambled motion. Conclusion: sts and ffa are involved in biological motion processing. Inferring the occurrence of a cognitive process on the basis of the pattern of brain activation. Typically takes a form of the following argument: Previous research has shown that region a is activated when cognitive process b. In our study, region a was activated, therefore, cognitive process b was present.
