Subject 1: Non-invasive methods to observe the brain and its activity
One goal in the Life Sciences is to understand and explain human behaviour. The processes that lead to a particular behavior, i.e. the perception of the environment, association and reasoning processes and the execution of an action are the subject of psychology.
The ways that processes are realized in the nervous system through the interactions of large numbers of neurons are the subject of neuroscience. One method to observe the activity of neural tissue is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It’s a further development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and allows indirect observation of the activity of neurons while a test participant carries out a particular task (e.g. finding the picture of a face among pictures of houses).
