A Short Guide to Brain Imaging: The Neuroscience of Human Cognition
Richard E. Passingham and James B. Rowe
Abstract
The book was written with several groups in mind: these include not only those who are starting out in imaging, but also those who have already acquired some expertise. Though the book is called a “guide,” it is not primarily a technical manual. Instead it was written to convey the message that those who use imaging should recognize that what they are doing is neuroscience. They are studying the brain, not colored pictures. It is only because the activations are shown on a computer screen that it has been possible to think in terms of an array of patches. The book encourages the reader to look ... More
The book was written with several groups in mind: these include not only those who are starting out in imaging, but also those who have already acquired some expertise. Though the book is called a “guide,” it is not primarily a technical manual. Instead it was written to convey the message that those who use imaging should recognize that what they are doing is neuroscience. They are studying the brain, not colored pictures. It is only because the activations are shown on a computer screen that it has been possible to think in terms of an array of patches. The book encourages the reader to look behind these images to think of the underlying cells and their connections. The first four chapters provide the neuroscientific background, describe the signal, treat the experimental and statistical methods, and introduce the anatomical principles. The next two chapters show how functional brain imaging can be used to identify the operations that are performed by different brain areas and the interactions that occur between areas within functional systems. The book then introduces the related methods of electro-encephalography, magneto-encephalography, and transcranial magnetic brain stimulation. It ends by showing how the combination of all the different methods can be used to provide answers to some of the important questions in cognitive neuroscience.
Keywords:
electro-encephalography,
EEG,
functional magnetic resonance imaging,
fMRI,
diffusion weighted imaging,
DWI,
magneto-encephalography,
MEG,
transcranial magnetic brain stimulation,
TMS,
functional anatomy,
cognitive neuroscience
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198709138 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198709138.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Richard E. Passingham, author
Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK
James B. Rowe, author
Professor of Cognitive Neurology at Cambridge University, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, and MRC Program Leader, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK
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