Research Methods ● One method is computerized

● Correlate brain anatomy with axial tomography, better known

behavior as a CT or CAT scan
● Record brain activity during
behavior
● Examine the effects of brain
damage
● Examine the effects of stimulating
some brain area

Correlating Brain Anatomy with

Behavior ● Another method is magnetic
● One of the first ways ever used resonance imaging (MRI),
for studying brain function sounds which is based on the fact that
easy: Find someone with unusual any atom with an oddnumbered
behavior and then look for atomic weight, such as hydrogen,
unusual features of the brain has an axis of rotation.
● Franz Gall, in the 1800s,
observed people with protruding
eyes and inferred that verbal
memory relied on brain areas
behind the eyes. He examined
skulls of people with different
talents or personalities, assuming
bulges and depressions on the
skull corresponded to brain areas
below them. This process is
known as phrenology.

Recording Brain Activity

● A device called the

electroencephalograph (EEG)
records electrical activity of the
brain through
electrodes—ranging from just a
few to more than a
hundred—attached to the scalp
 modified version of MRI based on
hemoglobin (the blood protein
that binds oxygen)

● A magnetoencephalograph
(MEG) is similar, but instead of
measuring electrical activity, it
measures the faint magnetic
fields generated by brain activity

● Another method,
positron-emission tomography
(PET), provides a high-resolution
image of activity in g brain by
recording the emission of
radioactivity from injected
chemicals.

● Functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) is a