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- abbreviation functional magnetic resonance imaging
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- initialism
functional magnetic resonance imaging
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Face Perception title fMRI Investigations of Human Extrastriate Cortex: People, Places, and Things description A basic lecture for the general public about visual perception and facial recognition, from the star-studded Columbia C250 Symposium.
Archive 2008-12-01 Sandra K 2008
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Face Perception title fMRI Investigations of Human Extrastriate Cortex: People, Places, and Things description A basic lecture for the general public about visual perception and facial recognition, from the star-studded Columbia C250 Symposium.
Face Perception Sandra K 2008
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If you ever want to make even the most cosmopolitan of your friends speechless, telling them you have volunteered to travel to Newark, New Jersey, so you can masturbate to orgasm in an fMRI is a great way to start.
Orgasm Research: Climax in an MRI Machine? Been There, Done That 2012
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The fMRI is a valuable tool in all branches of psychology, but it needs to be remembered that for all intents and purposes, it can only tell us WHERE something is happening.
Archive 2009-01-01 JLK 2009
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The fMRI is a valuable tool in all branches of psychology, but it needs to be remembered that for all intents and purposes, it can only tell us WHERE something is happening.
A Question of Value: What Does Cognitive Neuroscience Really Contribute? JLK 2009
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Of MRIs, there are two sorts: one is purely structural, and gives you the same sort of info as CT, only with much better spatial resolution; the other is called fMRI (for “functional”) and does a better job of imaging cerebral blood flow, which correlates (we think) with brain activity.
Terri Schiavo news 2005
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In order to do that, they used a technique called fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging, which detects changes in oxygen consumption by different parts of the brain while it is performing a certain task.
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The team then used a neuro-imaging technique known as fMRI to monitor the athletes 'brain activity shortly after giving them one of the three compounds.
innovations-report 2009
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The team then used a neuro-imaging technique known as fMRI to monitor the athletes 'brain activity shortly after giving them one of the three compounds.
unknown title 2009
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The team then used a neuro-imaging technique known as fMRI to monitor the athletes 'brain activity shortly after giving them one of the three compounds.
unknown title 2009
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