A Limitation of the FMRI Technique Used to Study Patterns

question 101

Multiple Choice

A limitation of the fMRI technique used to study patterns of brain activation in the Featured Study by Hamann, Herman, Nolan and Wallen presented in the text was that

• A) Computerized Tomography (CT) was only used to create a vivid image of the horizontal slice of the brains of the subjects.
• B) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was used and it does not measure neural activity directly, it only shows areas of increased metabolic activity.
• C) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) was used and it can only create three dimensional images of brain structures, not brain activity.
• D) functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) was used and it does not measure neural activity directly, it only shows areas of increased metabolic activity.

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