1. Intro to fMRI studies
BCS204 Week 3.2
1/30/2019

2. What fMRI can tell us What’s the difference between fMRI and MRI?
What does fMRI measure?
Blood Oxygen (or Oxygenation) Level Dependent signal
Localization of functions
Cognitive functions
Emotion
Language
Resting state
Conscious vs. subconscious processing
Sensory processing
Motor control

3. What fMRI can tell us Real-time activation while performing actions:

4. Some possible topics
Emotion control (visual or auditory) in clinical and typical population
Language learning in preschool- and school-aged children
Attention shift in demanding listening environment
Processing of semantic or syntactic anomaly by non-native speakers
Face recognition in clinical and atypical populations
Memory in young and old populations

5. How does our brain respond to ambient temperature?
Oi et al. (2017)
Subjects: 31 (18 underwent heating first, and 13 underwent cooling first)
Experiment conducted in winter!
Comfort rating (1-4) and sensation rating (1-4)

6. How does our brain respond to ambient temperature?
Oi et al. (2017)

7. How does our brain respond to ambient temperature?
Oi et al. (2017)

8. What brain regions are activated when implicitly learning sequences?
Folia and Petersson (2014)
Artificial grammar learning (similar to sequential learning)
32 Dutch Ss (healthy)
5 days
Implicit learning on Day 2 – 4): Each sequence presented letter by letter; reproduce sequences right away (no feedback)
Scanned on the 1st and 5th day: classification task (grammatical or not)

9. What brain regions are activated when implicitly learning sequences?
Folia and Petersson (2014)
Results from classification task

10. What brain regions are involved in Theory of Mind
Young et al. (2010)
31 healthy adults
Story reading task
2 by 2 design: Mental/Physical X Expected/Unexpected
Why physical condition needed?
If a region found to be active in Mental expected vs. Mental unexpected, is it just by chance or reflecting ToM?

11. What brain regions are involved in Theory of Mind
Young et al. (2010)
Behavioral results

12. What brain regions are involved in Theory of Mind
Young et al. (2010)
Defining regions of interest: Results from a previous study
Bilateral temporo-parietal junction
Results from story reading:
Red: Mental > Physical
Green: Unexpected > expected
Yellow: Overlap of the above two