Ways of investigating the brain

• Trepanning is burrowing holes in the skull as a kind of medicine
• Phrenology is a pseudoscience explaining how the shape of your head makes you more likely to be something
• Spatial resolution is the capacity of a scanning technique has to tell you exactly which area of the brain is active
• Temporal resolution is a scanning techniques ability to tell you exactly when the activation happenend
• Localisation of function is the idea that certain functions have certain locations within the brain
• Functional brain activation in humans shows changes over a period of several hours in the regions activated by learning or doing an activity