Multiple Choice
Brent is taking part in an experiment in a cognitive neuroscience lab on campus. Silently, he reads rapid sequences of words flashed on a computer screen. Simultaneously, the electrical activity of his brain is recorded through skull electrodes. The brain scanning technique used in this study is:
A) computerized axial tomography (CAT) .
B) electroencephalogram (EEG) .
C) positron emission tomography (PET) .
D) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) .
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