Using fMRI to Measure Memory in Sleeping Toddlers (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Using fMRI to Measure Memory in Sleeping Toddlers

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It is difficult to study brain activity in very young children. Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have come up with a protocol to use functional MRI scanning with children under two years old while they are asleep. This fMRI image shows activity in the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory formation and recall.

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Simona Ghetti, UC Davis

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