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Many f.M.R.I. studies on empathy involve scanning subjects' brains while they look at images of hands slammed in doors or of faces poked with needles.
During scanning subjects were instructed to reach and grasp towards a target presented at an unknown location either in isolation or flanked by two distractor objects.
During fMRI scanning, subjects performed a social situation task using a block design paradigm in which the task and control trials were performed by turn.
Thornton, whose project spans three branches of psychology, is testing a theory about the brain's processing of social information by scanning subjects' brains as they rate faces on different measures.
They are also scanning subjects' brains with a magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanner during the task to see what brain regions are active when a person successfully completes the identification task.
Throughout the scanning, subjects were instructed to lay in the scanner supine, relax, close their eyes but be awake.
During scanning, subjects remained in the supine position with their heads immobilized by a custom-built head holder to prevent head movements.
We investigated the dependence of this refractory effect upon stimulus characteristics using a novel adaptation paradigm while scanning subjects using fMRI at 4 T. The stimuli were composed of horizontal stripes that scrolled up, scrolled down, or remained static, randomly presented for 1-s duration with stimulus-onset asynchronies (SOAs) of 2-7 s.
Following scanning, subjects were asked if they fell asleep during the resting runs.
Prior to actual scanning, subjects performed a short training session to get familiarized with the task.
Thirty minutes after scanning, subjects completed a surprise recognition memory test (outside of the scanner).
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