AO3 - fMRI

• Unlike other techniques (e.g. PET scan) it does not rely on the use of radiation. (Risk-free and non-invasive and straightforward to use)


  Strength - FMRI
• Produces images with a high spacial resolution, depicting detail by the millimetre, and providing a clear image of how brain activity is localised. 


  Strength - fMRI
• Expensive compared to other techniques.

  Limitation - fMRI
• Poor temporal resolution. There is a 5 second time lag so it may not truly show moment to moment brain activity. 


  Limitation - fMRI
• Records specifc brain activity which can pinpoint specific responses and the exact source of brain activity.


  Strength - fMRI
• Can detec t activity in deeper regions of the brain.

  Strength - fMRI
• Ignores the networked nature of the brain.

  • Problem as it provides little insioght to how brain areas work together to function


  Limitation - fMRI