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Evaluating Brain Scans: The Two Key Resolutions

Evaluating Brain Scans: The Two Key Resolutions

Before diving into specific brain scanning techniques, we need to establish how psychologists evaluate them. When researchers choose a scanning method, they are often trading off between two key metrics: spatial resolution and temporal resolution.

Ways of studying the brain (A-level only) Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Ways of studying the brain (A-level only)

Step-by-step lessons covering AQA A Level Psychology Ways of studying the brain (A-level only) for A Level Psychology. Each lesson works through exam-style questions in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 format. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.

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Divisions of the nervous systemNeurons and synaptic transmissionFight or flight responseWays of studying the brain (A-level only)Localisation, lateralisation and plasticity (A-level only)