For one thing, the evidence for fMRI-based lie detection is still conflicted: Although past studies have associated prefrontal-cortex activity with lying, researchers have yet to reach a consensus ...

The development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) opened up an exciting new landscape for exploration of the human brain. Now, twenty years after the first fMRI study was published ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures brain activity indirectly by detecting changes in blood oxygenation levels, known as the hemodynamic response.

As opposed to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which shows the brain's structure, fMRI charts how the brain functions and thereby relates more closely to thought and behavior.

The scholarly paper is Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movie s by Nishimoto, Vu, Naselaris, Benjamini, Yu, and Gallant. Here’s how it works: fMRI (functional ...

By comparing the fMRI data from the 300 faces to the new scans, scientists were able to digitally draw the second set of faces that the participants saw based on brain activity.

This month, fMRI brain imaging celebrates its 20th anniversary. And so it should. It has come to dominate cognitive neuroscience. Massive amounts of precious funding are poured into it and ...

But the new study suggests that brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may spot Alzheimer's earlier. Although more research is needed to confirm these preliminary results, ...

Researchers are becoming increasingly critical of some brain scan studies using fMRI machines that purport to show how our minds shape our behavior.

McLean Hospital researchers found found that as people’s arousal levels dwindle during an fMRI, such as if they become more relaxed and sleepy, resulting changes in breathing and heart ...

Functional MRI is used to see which areas of the animal (or human) brain are activated in certain conditions—in this case, when they are exposed to odors or to visual stimuli.

After decades of shoddy science and pop-culture pandering, the field of fMRI research seems to be growing up — but not without some pains along the way.