The discovery has to do with a technique called fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging, which detects local changes in blood flow in the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.] Reference

There are now fMRI methods for determining differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

So they would have to voluntarily submit to an fMRI scan.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND READING] Reference

The fMRI machine shows how all this works inside the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND READING] Reference

Or would the fMRI merely ratify the judgments of intuition?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND READING] Reference

Most importantly, fMRI is susceptible to simple countermeasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lie Behind Lie Detectors] Reference

EEG has some of the same problems as fMRI, and some unique challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lie Behind Lie Detectors] Reference

The fMRI experiments do not pertain to these largest questions, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Impact] Reference

An fMRI took snapshots of their brains every eight seconds for 18 minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [How It All Starts Inside Your Brain] Reference

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to scan the brains of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Neurobunk: Politics, Phrenics, and Brainscans] Reference

The fMRI test measures oxygen in the brain, and oxygen is related to blood flow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lie Behind Lie Detectors] Reference

Brain-pattern analysis using fMRI is also being researched for other applications.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

Apparent fMRI activation of the amygdala (a brain region) while you're looking at a photo of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Neurobunk: Politics, Phrenics, and Brainscans] Reference

According to fMRI tests, the warnings did not dampen cravings; in fact, they stimulated them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgive Me, Pepsi, For I Have Sinned] Reference

But fMRI scans should help them narrow down which ones work across the broadest range of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference

Meanwhile, the scientists tracked the men's brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Brain On Poker] Reference

They used an fMRI scan (functional magnetic resonance imaging) during what is called an affect labeling task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald: Can Meditation Change Your Brain And Affect Your Genes?] Reference

I'm not talking about sticking your head in fMRI scanner, which, so far as anybody can tell, is perfectly safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Marcus: Does Brain Imaging Make You Dumb?] Reference

Since fMRI measures oxygen in the brain, a subject can defeat the test by breathing deeply or by holding her breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lie Behind Lie Detectors] Reference

If scientists can figure out which part of the brain we use to lie, the theory goes, then fMRI can tell when we are lying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lie Behind Lie Detectors] Reference

As with fMRI, the existence of wave variations can be generalized over a pool of people, but differs from person to person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lie Behind Lie Detectors] Reference

We used fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to measure brain activation as people worked through a complex problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Huettel: Anatomy of a Tough Decision] Reference

During a truthful response, the fMRI showed activation of parts of the brain's frontal lobe, temporal lobe and cingulate gyrus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lying Makes Brain Work Harder] Reference

Since then Cho has been studying patients with -- fMRI and PET scans, but he's still at a loss to explain why acupuncture works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ouch! That Feels Better] Reference

Specifically, he has been using fMRI scans to explore the relationship between brain activation patterns and real-life behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

They did this for past events and those that could plausibly occur in the future, while their brains were being scanned in a fMRI.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Your Brain on Optimism] Reference

He uses brain-pattern analysis and computer algorithms to analyze the fMRI scans and build a model of the subject's visual system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) Computational Neuroscience Laboratories also takes fMRI scans of what the subject sees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

For two minutes, images of monarch butterflies flitted by; the fMRI, which detects active regions in the brain, saw nothing untoward.    From Wordnik.com.  [How It All Starts Inside Your Brain] Reference

MRI is essentially a technique for examining morphology (structure), while fMRI is a technique for examining activity of brain tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Neurobunk: Politics, Phrenics, and Brainscans] Reference

Gallant does this by showing people images and movies while taking a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of their brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

"It is possible that brain signals during sleep measured by fMRI are too noisy," says Yukiyasu Kamitani, ATR's head of Neuroinformatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science Of 'Inception'] Reference

Neuromarketers are still exploring exactly what kind of information they can tease out of test subjects with questionnaires and fMRI scans.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference

Prof. Davidson then used fMRI imaging to detect which regions of the monks 'and novices' brains became active during compassion meditation.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Thinking Can Change the Brain] Reference