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FMRI

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain

Synonyms:

fMRI; functional magnetic resonance imaging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fMRI" is a kind of...):

magnetic resonance imaging; MRI (the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fMRI"):

blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging; BOLD FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation)

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 Context examples: 

Study participants were given fMRI scans while exposed to highly threatening, violent and stressful images followed by neutral, non-stressful images for six minutes each.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)

These measures – including cortex thickness, cortex myelin content, task and resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) – cross-validated each other.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

Through fMRI studies of other groups of women, the team found that infant cries activated similar brain regions in new and experienced mothers: the supplementary motor area, which is associated with the intention to move and speak; the inferior frontal regions, which are involved in the production of speech; and the superior temporal regions that are linked to sound processing.

(Study identifies brain patterns underlying mothers’ responses to infant cries, National Institutes of Health)

Because the researchers can look under the hood of the software to see how it handles information at every stage of processing, they can compare each stage with the functions of the auditory cortex, as imaged with fMRI.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)