Brain imaging
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- Created on: 04-12-22 11:47
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- Brain imaging
- fMRI
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Detects the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur as a result of neural activity
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- High spatial resolution
- Non-invasive
- Weaknesses
- Poor temporal resolution
- Expensive
- Strengths
- EEG
- Electroencephalogram
- Measures electrical activity within the brain
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Useful in studying sleep stages
- High temporal resolution
- Weaknesses
- Poor spatial resolution
- Strengths
- ERP
- Event-related potential
- Measures electrical activity within the brain as a response to a stimulus
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Excellent temporal resolution
- Useful to study working memory
- Weaknesses
- Poor spatial resolution
- Lack of methodology standardisation
- Strengths
- Post-mortem
- Analysis of a person's brain after death
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Used by Broca and Wernicke
- Allows the physical structure of the brain to be seen
- Weaknesses
- Causation cannot be proved
- Ethical issues of consent
- Strengths
- fMRI
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