Moreover, researchers can already interpret a person's neural activity from
functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at a rudimentary level1 — that the individual is thinking of a person, say, rather than a car.
Within a week of the home visit, the participants underwent
functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning to determine how their brains reacted to the videotapes of themselves with their infants.
To begin with, the motor neurons that normally become active with speech are not in precisely the same place from patient to patient and have to be located with
a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan before the electrode is implanted.
Not exact matches
Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta conducted
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scans of 21 undergraduate students all tasked with reading the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris.
The next morning, study participants were tested again on the word pairs, this time while undergoing
functional and structural
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scans.
Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two
functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain
scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.
Beginning in 2009, they used
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to
scan the brains of patients prior to treatment for depression; they then followed the patients through the course of therapy, generally for four weeks.
Meanwhile, the researchers
scanned participants» brains with
functional magnetic resonance imaging, paying close attention to activity in several areas of the brain.
Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.
The brain's precise speech center varies from person to person, so to find Ramsey's target area — the place where an implant could discern the appropriate speech signals — Kennedy used a
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scan.
When he and a control subject, another sensation - seeking rock climber, viewed gruesome, high - arousal photographs during
functional magnetic resonance imaging brain
scans, Honnold's amygdala ─ the brain's fear center ─ showed zero activation while the other climber's lit up like a neon sign.
At present, the
scanning part is done by
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The
scans — done with
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.
These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
scans.
The fNIRS
scans indicated that the concussed brain activated at a lower threshold and drew from a wider area — a sharp contrast from earlier
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using concussion patients.
Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by
scanning the brains of participants, using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.
This hypothesis is supported by several observations so we decided to test it by
scanning the brains of individuals of varying age with
functional magnetic resonance imaging and analysing the data both with fApEn and SampEn.»
In the
scans at age 8, the researchers precisely defined the VWFA for each child by using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity as the children read.
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.
By
scanning subjects» brains using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researcher found that, in fact, weighing possible outcomes does influence decision making.
Researchers then
scanned the brains of volunteers with
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while showing them 32 of the face cards; with half of them, subjects were instructed to consciously think about the associated harrowing counterpart and with the other half, they were instructed to consciously suppress their thoughts about it.
Brain
scans In the study, researchers
scanned the brains of 39 depressed patients and 37 healthy people using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fRMI).
Previous studies have used
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain.
Beauchamp and Nath followed up on that study with a new one in which they
scanned people's brains with
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as they played McGurk videos of mismatched sounds and lip movements.
In a study led by psychiatrist Ian Reid of Aberdeen, Schwarzbauer and colleagues performed
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scans of nine depressed patients before and after ECT.
The project was the first to train dogs to voluntarily enter a
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and remain motionless during
scanning, without restraint or sedation.
First, Vanduffel's team
scanned the two monkeys» brains using
functional magnetic resonance imaging while they followed a green dot on a computer screen.
Neuroscientist Jason Cooperrider and colleagues
scanned Grandin's brain using three different methods: high - resolution
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which captures the structure of the brain; diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI), a method to trace the connections between brain regions; and
functional MRI, which indicates brain activity.
To avoid the noise of the
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, the scientists played the sounds between
scans to allow for an undisturbed tone.
The participants disclosed with whom of the two characters they had a closer identification and were asked a series of questions about that person — and themselves — as their brains were
scanned by
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
During this test, the subjects were
scanned with
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure their brain activity while carrying out the task.
For the study, researchers conducted brain
scans on 37 healthy smokers (those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day) ages 19 to 61 using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two different sessions: 24 hours after biochemically confirmed abstinence and after smoking as usual.
Both PET (positron emission tomography) and fMRI (
functional magnetic resonance imaging)
scans showed the same atypical activation.
By
scanning his subjects with
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).
In a 2006 study by Montague and others, pairs of subjects had their brains
scanned using
functional magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, as they played a game requiring them to take turns.
When the scientists used
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to
scan brain activity, they saw that high and low frequency stimulation put the rats in completely different states of activity.
Brain
scans using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and even genetic tests are turning up possible clues to our political origins and behaviors.
Modularity metaphors have been fueled by a new brain -
scanning technology called
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Resting - state
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series of each participant was acquired for a period of 8 min on a 3 tesla
magnetic resonance imaging scanner [three - dimensional PRESTO, repetition time / echo time 22 ms / 32 ms, flip angle 9 °; SENSE p / s 2/2; a dynamic
scan time of 0.5 s, 1000 time frames; field of view 256 × 256 mm, voxel size 4 × 4 × 4 mm, 32 slices covering whole brain (supplemental material, available at www.jneurosci.org)-RSB-.
To test whether friendship, and more generally, social network proximity, is associated with increased similarity of real - time mental responding, we used
functional magnetic resonance imaging to
scan subjects» brains during free viewing of naturalistic movies.
The team used
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to
scan the brains of each participant as they viewed the warnings, allowing them to analyze brain activity.
His main responsibilities are administering and analyzing
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
scans on the study participants.
fMRI (for
functional magnetic resonance imaging) A special type of body
scan used to track brain activity.
fMRI (for
functional magnetic resonance imaging) A special type of
scanning machine used to study brain activity.
This is a way of analyzing fMRI (
functional magnetic resonance imaging)
scans, which measure activity in the brain by looking at changes in blood oxygen.
1) Brain
imaging research techniques such as PET
scans (positron emission tomography) and fMRI (
functional magnetic resonance imaging) clearly show that the vast majority of the brain does not lie fallow.
Phillips and her collaborators
scanned the brains of the volunteers using a
functional magnetic resonance imaging machine.
Each individual had
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a method of brain
scanning which measures activity in several areas of the brain by blood flow, while playing a card game designed to stimulate reward feelings.
Then the researchers performed
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scans of the participants» brains as they viewed pictures of a variety of foods (for instance, chocolate cake) and described how hungry they were.
Before and after the four - week study, participants» underwent
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
scans, both while in a state of rest, and in response to an «emotion - recognition task.»