PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: White Matter, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Blood Vessel
20 Jul 2016
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Learning objective: understand the key methods that scientists use to learn about the brain anatomy and functioning. The field of neuroscience (the study of the brain and nervous system) How scientists study the brain and nervous system: 1,2 to learn about the brain anatomy and functioning in patients with brain damage. As well as to make predictions about the functional effects of brain injuries and identify types of seizure disorders. Researchers have refined the eeg"s technique though the analysis of event related potentials aka erp"s to time lock eeg activity. Positron emission tomography (pet) scans and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) enables researchers to see which brain areas are particularly active during certain tasks. Over the past few decades new structural neuroimaging (technique that allow for studying brain activity and structure by obtaining visual images in awake humans) techniques have been developed.
