Sentences with phrase «functional imaging experiments»

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Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

Then, at Harvard, he conducted experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to search for hard evidence of psi activity in the brain.

They designed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to specifically track thoughts related to memories» contexts, and put a new twist on a centuries - old psychological research technique of having subjects memorize and recall a list of unrelated words.

The experiments used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure increased blood flow throughout the brain, a marker of increased neural activity, during a wide range of activities, including finger - tapping, whistling, chewing, drawing, writing, reading, watching a movie and playing video games and memory games.

Recently featured in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, the experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to measure neural responses triggered by emotionally sensitive images.

In an experiment using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), participants were exposed to acute stress while trying to empathize with another person.