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Brain imaging technologies:• Positron Emission Tomography(PET)- measureschanges in cerebral blood flow, oxygenutilization, and glucose utilization linked to neuralactivity.• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI(fMRI)-measures changes in the ratio of oxygenated anddeoxygenated hemoglobin• These methods allow us to see cognitive taskchange brain activity• Therefore, help us localize areas of brain activitythat underlie the various cognitive components
2 examples on how cognitive psychology linkeducational questions with cognitive neuroscience:• Educational problem: learning elementary schoolarithmetic- ability to do numerical comparisons isan acquired skill• Field of cognitive neuroscience: conducted aseries of brain-recording recording experiments to traceneural circuitry involved in making suchcomparisons• These examples show: there is no way we couldunderstand how the brain processes numbers bylooking at children’s s classroom or math curriculaand be able to design a math curricula based onthe results.
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