Brain regions

Sydney Meyer
Feb.22.2018



 Desmet, Charlotte, Van Der wiel, Alko, Brass, Marcel. (2017). "Brain regions involved in observing and trying to interpret dog behavior". PLOS one Edited by Sam Gilbert.

The main purpose of the article is to explain the experiment done to differentiate between the active parts of a humans brain when they are trying to interpret a dogs behavior compared to when they are trying to interpret another person behavior. According to the article, " Three functional fMRI runs were presented. The three runs were always presented in the same order and consisted of the following three tasks: PASSIVE task, INTERPRETATION task, and LOCALIZER task." This shows the way they tested the brain to see the functions of the brain that were active while trying to interpret the dogs behavior. In each step they used the same video however the person being tested was provided with a new task to focus on while watching the video.

Three

functional

fMRI

runs

were

presented.

The

three

runs

were

always

presented

in

the

same

order

and

consisted

of

the

following

three

tasks:

PASSIVE

task,

INTERPRETATION

task

and

LOCALIZER

task.

Three

functional

fMRI

runs

were

presented.

The

three

runs

were

always

presented

in

the

same

order

and

consisted

of

the

following

three

tasks:

PASSIVE

task,

INTERPRETATION

task

and

LOCALIZER

task.