PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 3.4: Grey Matter, Electroencephalography, Functional Neuroimaging

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Module 3. 4 windows to the brain: measuring and observing brain. The key term associated with measuring and observing brain activity. How studies of animals with brain lesions can inform us about the workings of the brain. Whether neuroimaging can be used to diagnose brain injuries. Your knowledge of neuroimaging techniques to see which ones would be most useful in answering a specific research question. The logic of this method is that if a person is unable to perform a particular task then it assumes that the brain is damaged. However, they cannot inflict brain damage on humans, only on animals. Lesioning: a technique in which researchers intentionally damage an area in the brain: creating these allows researchers to isolate single brain structures. Sham group: a set of animals that go through all of the surgical procedures aside from the lesion method is found in studies of spatial learning.