Neuroimaging: Introduction

Introduction to Functional Neuroimaging

Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING

There has been explosive interest in the use of brain imaging to study cognitive and affective processes in recent years. Examine Figure 1, for example, to see the dramatic rise in numbers of publications from 1992 to 1999 in which the term, " functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging " (fMRI) appears in the title. Because of the surge of empirical work that now relies on a combination of behaviora...

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging perspectives on conceptual knowledge: an introduction.

The modern era of study of the representation of object concepts in the human brain began in 1983 with a report by Warrington and McCarthy of a patient with preserved knowledge for animals, foods, and flowers, relative to inanimate objects (Warrington & McCarthy, 1983). This was followed the next year by a report of four patients with the opposite pattern of preserved and impaired category know...

Neuroimaging in communication sciences and disorders: an introduction.

Localization of function within the brain has been a cornerstone for understanding an array of communication disorders. Scientific study of the link between focal brain regions and human behaviors now spans two centuries. However, our ability to observe the brain ‘‘in action’’ is a relatively recent event. Early studies of cognitive-related change in blood flow began to populate the literature ...

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