functional magnetic resonance imaging

noun

: magnetic resonance imaging used to detect physical changes (as of blood flow) in the brain resulting from increased neuronal activity

called also functional MRI

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Rebecca Saxe, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her colleagues scanned 42 infants ranging in age from two to nine months using a special functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) helmet designed specifically for babies. —Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2021

In three different experiments, similar regions of the brain were activated when subjects admitted their minds had wandered from a task, as shown here in functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. —Tim Vernimmen, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2022

In a recent study, the researchers asked about a hundred 15-year-olds to listen to a piece of music while their brain was scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which shows which areas of the brain are active during a certain task. —Eva Amsen, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022

Participants listened to the stimuli while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). —Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2023

In 2011 researchers from Emory University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow, to predict the commercial success or failure of songs. —Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 30 June 2023

The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, focused on three subjects, each of whom spent 16 hours listening to narrative podcasts like The Moth and Modern Love while lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine. —Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023

The team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a noninvasive method of measuring brain activity, along with the predictive abilities of a large language model, to roughly translate brain recordings into sentences. —Julia Malleck, Quartz, 3 May 2023

On each occasion, they were fitted with a device to objectively measure arousal, given an injection and asked to watch pornography while their brains were scanned via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). —Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1988, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

functional magnetic resonance imaging

noun

: magnetic resonance imaging used to demonstrate correlations between physical changes (as in blood flow) in the brain and mental functioning (as in performing cognitive tasks)

—abbreviation fMRI

called also functional MRI