Sentences with phrase «magnetic resonance imagers»

Using functional magnetic resonance imagers (fMRI), Jack has found that the human brain has an analytic network and an empathetic network that tend to suppress one another.

Researchers are probing the brain with increasingly powerful tools, including superfast magnetic resonance imagers and microelectrodes that can detect the murmurs of individual brain cells.

Two mornings a week for the better part of an 18 - month stretch, you could find Russell Poldrack with his head inside a giant metal doughnut — the business end of a magnetic resonance imager.

He then placed both players in an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imager) and scanned their brains as they nonverbally communicated with one another via computer.

The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.A long overdue reassessment of neuroimaging machines — in particular the functional magnetic resonance imager — has underlined that what you see is not always what you get.A study published this year in Perspectives on Psychological Science noted that many papers in social neuroscience, the field that examines the neurobiology of social behavior, suffered from faulty analyses that produced «voodoo correlations» in their data.