By combining fMRI brain imaging with a system that's somewhat like the predictive text of cell phones, they've worked out the gist of the sentences a person is hearing in near real time.

But fMRI has kept going, in part because no other technique has bettered its ability to see what the human brain is doing. It has turned psychology “into a biological science”, says Richard ...

Using this modification — and a powerful MRI scanner — the researchers could track brain activity on the millisecond timescale, a temporal precision much greater that of conventional fMRI.

When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when ...

“With fMRI, suddenly you could study the brain of a healthy person,” says Saxe. ... An fMRI is conducted in a MRI machine equipped to scan people’s heads — it’s a giant doughnut-shaped ...

Scientists have studied living human brains using fMRI for years, to answer questions about addiction, depression, and also whether a bad breakup hurts as much as spilling hot coffee over yourself.

Hospital MRI scanners, using 3 Tesla magnets, provide poor spatial resolution in brain imaging. More recent 7T MRIs are better but used mainly in the rare research lab. Scientists have now ...

On an fMRI image, at least, the lying brain may look no different from one that’s simply contemplating whether to lie. “Within the dishonest group, we saw no basis for distinguishing lies from ...

With ultra-high resolution functional MRI, it is possible to differentiate active groups of neurons (blue arrows, which show double stripes of activity) in superficial layers as well as the deepest ...

A study is suggesting the global popularity, or virality, of a video can be predicted by looking at how certain areas of a person’s brain are activated while they view the first few seconds of ...