Testing the ghost with the machine: Empirical investigations of cognition using high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging

用机器测试鬼魂：使用高场功能性磁共振成像进行认知的实证研究。该项目的主要目的是使用高场功能磁共振成像（fMRI）来测试关于单词生成和负启动的认知结构的假设。其他目标/结果是应用一种新的功能磁共振成像采集序列，允许公开的口头反应，快速呈现试验和收集血氧水平依赖（BOLD）信号的时间过程，并进一步发展一种方法，描述从功能神经成像数据推断认知系统的逻辑。这些都代表了认知神经科学和功能神经成像领域潜在的重大发展。

Testing the ghost with the machine: Empirical investigations of cognition using high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging. The primary aim of the project is to test hypotheses about the cognitive architecture of word production and negative priming using high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Additional aims/outcomes are to apply a novel fMRI acquisition sequence that permits overt verbal responding with rapid presentation of trials and collection of the time course of the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal, and to further develop a methodology that delineates the logic of making inferences about cognitive systems from functional neuroimaging data. These represent potentially significant developments in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and functional neuroimaging.