Neuroscientific Methods

Question 1

what are two anatomical methods of study?

Answer 1

computer tomography (CT scan) cat scan
MRI scan

Question 2

3 ways of monitoring brain activity?

Answer 2

electroencephalogram (EEG)
Positron emission topography (PET scan)
functional megnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Question 3

what us an EEG?

Answer 3

attatching electrodes to head, ampifying oltage and allowing brain activty to be recorded

Question 4

what is a PET scan?

Answer 4

looking t blood flow to see patterns of activity across the brain, area where activity is higher = red areas become larger and show which part of brian affected by differnet factors

Question 5

what is fMRI?

Answer 5

a step further than a PET scan

Question 6

what is spatio-temporal resolution?

Answer 6

need many mehtods of activity recording due to this, spatio level is down to the neuron, microbe onto the membran eof a cell = very precise process

Question 7

what are the limits of EEG, fMRI and single recording unit?

Answer 7

poor spatial resolution
medium spatial resolution, low temporal reoslution
high spatial and temporal resolution

Question 8

what is poor spatial resolution?

Answer 8

misses fine details/ interactions between groups or individual neurons

Question 9

what is high spatial resolution?

Answer 9

what the rest of the brain is doing

Question 10

what is high temporal resolution?

Answer 10

can we ‘see’ the relevant signal, can we store enough data?