What’s on the Brain Imaging poster
A 6-row table: Method · Measures · Resolution.
What each technique actually records.
- EEG — Electrical activity at the scalp — Excellent time, poor space
- ERP — Averaged EEG to a stimulus — Excellent time, poor space
- fMRI — Blood oxygenation (BOLD) — Good space, poor time
- PET — Radioactive tracer uptake — Moderate both; invasive
- MEG — Magnetic fields — Good time, moderate space
- Post-mortem — Structure after death — Excellent detail, no function
fMRI measures blood flow, not neural firing — an indirect proxy lagging the activity by several seconds.
Questions about the Brain Imaging poster
- What’s on the Brain Imaging poster?
- A 6-row table: Method · Measures · Resolution. What each technique actually records. EEG — Electrical activity at the scalp — Excellent time, poor space; ERP — Averaged EEG to a stimulus — Excellent time, poor space; fMRI — Blood oxygenation (BOLD) — Good space, poor time; PET — Radioactive tracer uptake — Moderate both; invasive; MEG — Magnetic fields — Good time, moderate space; Post-mortem — Structure after death — Excellent detail, no function. fMRI measures blood flow, not neural firing — an indirect proxy lagging the activity by several seconds.
- Who is the Brain Imaging poster for?
- Brain Imaging belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning biological can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Brain Imaging poster?
- Spatial resolution and temporal resolution trade against each other. No method has both. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Brain Imaging belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Brain Imaging?
- Biological Rhythms, Brain Structures and Drug Action sit alongside Brain Imaging in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Biological RhythmsBrain StructuresDrug Action
- Is the Brain Imaging poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Brain Imaging downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Brain Imaging poster print at?
- Brain Imaging is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Brain Imaging loses nothing.Printing guide
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