PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Auditory Cortex, Radiography, Angiography
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Chapter 6 imaging the brain"s activity: pet (positron emission tomography) allows neuropsychologists to view how blood, angelo mosso flows in the brain in the brain might provide a way of assessing brain fxn during mental activity was the first to explore this with the idea that changes in the flow of blood, experiment: recordings were taken from a farmers brain and arm when he heard church bells. Imaging techniques are used by researches to observe and manipulate the brain and its activity and to locate brain injury: electrical recording: detect change in electrical activity of neurons, brain stimulation: induces change in electrical activity of the brain, x ray imaging: sensitive to the density of diff parts of the brain (ventricles, nuclei, dynamic imaging: records and manipulates ongoing changes in brain activity incl. pathways) electrical activity of cells, biochem events, glucose comp, blood flow.
