Aug 22, 2017
Rapid advances in brain scanning technology and its capacity to “read” human minds mean that there is a pressing need to plan for how and when we will use it in the future. fMRI enables researchers to observe which areas of the brain are most active when people perform particular tasks, experience specific emotions, or imagine certain scenarios. Although it has important limitations, researchers suggest that it could make ideas that once seemed science fiction a reality.
Image: A High Quality T3 fMRI scan of my brain produced using the University of Birminghams Medical school fMRI machine from 2012. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
