Beardsley 1997 fMRI study

• what year did this experiment take place?

  1997
• who conducted this experiment?

  beardsley
• what was the scan used in this experiment?

  functional magnetic resonance imaging
• How does the fMRI work?


  measures brain activity detected by blood flow, shows active areas of the brain
• what did beardsley show?


  the pre-frontal cortex of the brain is active when we carry out a STM task
• Method of this study?

  participants completing simple tasks whilst brain activity was monitored
• What was the conclusion

  active pre-frontal cortex shows evidence of separate memory stores