There are a number of ways that brain activity can be measured and viewed, these vary from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to lesion studies, each one having their own advantages and disadvantages. A lesion study can be construed as a method of the neuropsychologist to study the behaviour that is altered by the selected removal of one or more of the brain’s components (Gazzaniga et al., 2008, p.125).
This method of study implements a unique insight into how the human brain generates emotion and feeling through electrical impulses (Feinstein, 2013, p.304). Gazzaniga et al (2008) do point out that one of the major impediments of a lesion study is that humans cannot be subjected to brain lesions as an experimental procedure. Therefore, human neuropsychology typically takes place with patients who have suffered naturally occurring lesions, thus shrinking the number of
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Furthermore, the EEG form of neuroimaging techniques can take many uses of a stimulus to obtain a significant result, this could cause the subject to learn what the need to do when presented with the stimulus over the period of time. The vast majority of neuroimaging techniques are considerably cost effective. This is of course excluding MRIs and its functional form which can cost up to £2.4million (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust, 2012). As a result of the cost for such a machine, the advances in the neuroimaging world have been drastic in terms of the investigation of brain structure, function, development and pathologies. The growing power and strength of MRIs and fMRIs has granted us the ability to answer scientifically interesting and clinically relevant questions (Smith et