Researchers Using PET or FMRI Find That a Certain Brain

question 93

Multiple Choice

Researchers using PET or fMRI find that a certain brain area becomes highly active while people are frightened.Later they measure activity in that area for many people,and identify the people with the highest activity.What,if anything,can we conclude about those people based on this evidence?​

• A)Those people were frightened at the time of the measurement.
• B)Those people have a tendency to become frightened easily.​
• C)Those people were excited in some other way at the time of the measurement.​
• D)We cannot draw any of these conclusions.​

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Definitions:

Somatosensory Cortex

A region of the brain located in the parietal lobe that processes sensory information from various parts of the body, including touch, temperature, and pain.

Parietal Lobes

Regions of the brain located behind the frontal lobes, involved in processing sensory information related to taste, temperature, and touch, as well as spatial orientation and navigation.

Temporal

Related to time or indicative of the sequence in which events occur.

Visual Cortex

The part of the cerebral cortex involved in processing visual information, located in the occipital lobe of the brain.