Visualizing the brain - functional neuroimaging

We live in a high-tech future, where looking inside the black box of the brain is possible-with help from functional neuroimaging! In this video, we'll talk about some modern techniques used to probe cognition by measuring brain activity, and what these results can (and can't!) tell us about the mind.
0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Two types of neuroimaging
6:19 - PET (positron emission tomography)
8:17 - fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging)
18:41 - What fMRI can tell us
27:41 - Brain plasticity
32:10 - Key concepts
Sources:
Kanwisher (2017). The quest for the FFA and where it led. www.jneurosci.org/content/37/...
Saygin, Osher, Norton, Youssoufian, Beach, Feather, Gaab, Gabrieli & Kanwisher (2016). Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area. www.nature.com/articles/nn.4354
Musso, Moro, Glauche, Rijntjes, Reichenbach, Büchel & Weiller (2003). Broca’s area and the language instinct. www.nature.com/articles/nn1077
Saxe & Kanwisher (2013). People thinking about thinking people: the role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapter...
Fedorenko, Duncan & Kanwisher (2012). Language-selective and domain-general regions lie side by side within Broca's area. www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Lane, Kanjlia, Omaki & Bedni (2015). “Visual” cortex of congenitally blind adults responds to syntactic movement. www.jneurosci.org/content/35/...

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