You Have Just Joined a Psychology Lab and Are Working

question 429

Multiple Choice

You have just joined a psychology lab and are working with a group of researchers who are interested in how the brain responds to different kinds of facial expressions (e.g. happy, scared, angry, etc,.) . They ask you if you have any ideas for experiments. You tell them that you wonder if the response of the fusiform face area (FFA) , an area known to be involved in facial processing, might differ with the emotion being conveyed by a face. If you hypothesize that FFA activity will vary across the presentation of different kinds of facial expressions, what method would be appropriate to test that hypothesis?

• A)A functional MRI (fMRI)
• B)ERP (event-related potentials)
• C)None of these method would be appropriate to test that hypothesis.
• D)transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
• E)a computerized axial tomography (CT) scan

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