‘Like tearing open a bud to see what the flower will be like.’ –D.H. Lawrence
A new approach to fMRI scanning offers a three-dimensional look at brain activation.
fMRI is already a 3D technique, of course, but in the case of the cerebral cortex - which is what the great majority of neuroscientists are most interested in - the 3D data are effectively just 2D images folded up in space. (…)
In a new paper, Minnesota neuroscientists Olman et al say that they’ve given fMRI a third dimension.
