Visualizing the brain - functional neuroimaging

We live in a high-tech future, where looking inside the black box of the brain is possible—with help from functional neuroimaging! In this video, we'll talk about some modern techniques used to probe cognition by measuring brain activity, and what these results can (and can't!) tell us about the mind. 0:00 – Intro 2:00 – Two types of neuroimaging 6:19 – PET (positron emission tomography) 8:17 – fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) 18:41 – What fMRI can tell us 27:41 – Brain plasticity 32:10 – Key concepts Sources: Kanwisher (2017). The quest for the FFA and where it led. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/37/5/1056.abstract Saygin, Osher, Norton, Youssoufian, Beach, Feather, Gaab, Gabrieli & Kanwisher (2016). Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area. https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4354 Musso, Moro, Glauche, Rijntjes, Reichenbach, Büchel & Weiller (2003). Broca’s area and the language instinct. https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1077 Saxe & Kanwisher (2013). People thinking about thinking people: the role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203496190-20/people-thinking-thinking-people-saxe-kanwisher Fedorenko, Duncan & Kanwisher (2012). Language-selective and domain-general regions lie side by side within Broca's area. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212010743 Lane, Kanjlia, Omaki & Bedni (2015). “Visual” cortex of congenitally blind adults responds to syntactic movement. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/37/12859.short