Welcome to the fMRI laboratory
at the Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland.
Research in our lab examines connectionist models of information processing with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an approach that has been called cognitive neuroimaging, a branch of cognitive science. We investigate models of language (production and perception) and memory (episodic and semantic). We also investigate brain regions involved in performing various cognitive tasks, reflecting a different approach called cognitive neuroscience, a branch of neuroscience. In recent months, we have commenced examining phenotypic variations in brain structure and function, contributing to the emerging field of imaging genetics.
"A great deal of recent work… has been devoted to imaging the brains of people as they perform cognitive tasks online. One can imagine two kinds of motivation for such work. The first is the hope that investigations of this kind could tell us more about the nature of cognition itself - about the functional architecture of some cognitive system. The second and different motivation is to seek to localize in the brain the individual components, the modules, of the proposed functional architecture of some cognitive system."
Coltheart, M. (2004). Cognitive neuropsychology. In The Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge, Third Edition. pp. 162-163.