Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing ...

The team first looked at fMRI data to identify brain regions activated by different creative activities such as drawing, creative writing and making music. They then assessed data from patients ...

In the case of functional MRI (fMRI), the system produces images of the brain’s function, indicating whether the activity of neurons is increased or decreased in specific parts of the brain, and ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the ...

The first study used functional MRI to examine brain activity while participants ... at this point it is too early to draw any firm conclusions. One reason for this is that the relationship ...

Researchers have long used one version of this technology, known as blood oxygen level–dependent functional MRI (BOLD fMRI), to study how the human brain works. This method detects changes in blood ...