 | Kirsten Malmkjær - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 696 pages
...and aphasie (see APHASIA) patients (Springer and Deutsch 1993), and in studies using brain-scanning techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (Fiez et al. 1996; Schlosser et al. 1998). However, the finding of left-hemispheric dominance for speech... | |
 | William W. Lytton - Mathematics - 2002 - 392 pages
...light on the brain expands as new techniques are developed. The development of physiological probes such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have permitted the viewing of activity in the living, thinking human brain. However, there still remains... | |
 | Almut Schuez, Robert Miller - Medical - 2002 - 533 pages
...contributions are still unclear (Erecinska and Silver, 1989; ladecola, 1993). The functional imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET)...and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), provide means to study the active human brain. However, they present only indirect indicators of neural... | |
 | Larry Squire, Darwin Berg, Floyd E. Bloom, Sascha du Lac, Anirvan Ghosh, Larry R. Squire, Nicholas C. Spitzer, Susan K. McConnell, James L. Roberts, Michael J. Zigmond - Medical - 2002 - 1426 pages
...neuronal activity to energy consumption. This tight coupling is at the basis of functional brain-imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging. ENERGY METABOLISM OF THE BRAIN AS A WHOLE ORGAN Glucose is the Main Energy Substrate for the Brain... | |
 | Ernest Lawrence Rossi - Medical - 2002 - 592 pages
...communication. Here we have a great advantage over previous generations, for we have new brain-imaging tools — such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging — (fMRI) that can tell us which areas of the brain 's matter are active during various activities of the brain... | |
 | Friedrich T. Sommer, Andrzej Wichert - Computers - 2003 - 318 pages
...for the mediation of working memory in the prefrontal cortex. 12.1 Introduction Human brain imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET)...functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have come to be important in relating human cognition to physical changes in the brain. There is a great... | |
 | Sudhansu Chokroverty, Wayne A. Hening, Arthur S. Walters - Movement disorders - 2003 - 570 pages
...normal appearing cells, for example, recognition is exceedingly difficult. Noninvasive neuroimaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET)...and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), enhance detection of disease-specific pathologic findings and their rate of progression with repeated... | |
 | Raymond D. Kent - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 644 pages
...neurosurgical lesions involving subcortical structures (eg, thalamotomy and pallidotomy). Functional imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enable brain images to be collected while the subject is performing various language production tasks... | |
 | Alex J. Zautra - Health & Fitness - 2006 - 334 pages
...studies using direct measures of brain activity. Their early work was done before modern imaging methods such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were available. Prior to the use of imaging, most neuroscientists relied on recordings of electrical... | |
 | Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley - Philosophy - 2009 - 434 pages
...faculties are represented on the surface of the skull, do their mapping with brain imaging technologies such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which pinpoint which brain neighborhoods are active during any given mental activity. This has been... | |
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New imaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), promise advances in our ability to identify regions of the brain associated with cognitive and affective disorders. 
