{"id":3298,"date":"2018-04-27T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2018-04-26T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:19:22","slug":"understanding-scanning-technology-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/understanding-scanning-technology-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Scanning Technology: When and Where in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks over at TedEd have produced another helpful brain video &#8212; this one exploring different brain-scanning techniques.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B10pc0Kizsc<\/p>\n<p>This video does a particularly good job exploring both the strengths and the weaknesses of each technology.<\/p>\n<h2>Location, Location&#8230;oh, and Timing<\/h2>\n<p>In particular, EEG is very good at measuring <em>timing<\/em> precisely. Sadly, it can&#8217;t pinpoint location very accurately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AdobeStock_194165520_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3303 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AdobeStock_194165520_Credit-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"brain scanning technology\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AdobeStock_194165520_Credit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AdobeStock_194165520_Credit-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AdobeStock_194165520_Credit.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, fMRI can zoom in on location within a few millimeters. However, its timing measurements are only rough-n-ready: within a few seconds or so.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the video doesn&#8217;t discuss magnetoencephalography (MEG) &#8212; which does with magnetic waves what EEG does with electrical waves.<\/p>\n<p>For fun: this video shows the MEG image when the brain reads the single word &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/neuroscience\/common_includes\/si_flowplayer.html?pid=2377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dog<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks over at TedEd have produced another helpful brain video &#8212; this one exploring different brain-scanning techniques. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B10pc0Kizsc This video does a particularly good job exploring both the strengths and the weaknesses of each technology. Location, Location&#8230;oh, and Timing In particular, EEG is very good at measuring timing precisely. Sadly, it can&#8217;t pinpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-methodology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}