Haiku from the 2002 Holiday Party
fMRI of Cognition
Tell them to forget
Accidental encoding
But where's the activation?
3D crystal lines
Rotating anaglyphs lost
In a purple haze
Study exemplars
Learn the rules without knowing
Amnesics do, too
Abstract structure drawn
Effortlessly from eyes ears
Implicit learning
One learned, one new
Compare brain activity
Bang-bang-bang-bang blue
Ping-pong our small room,
Implicit acquisition
Complex motor skill
fMRI of
MTL ROI
Imagine memory
Complex learning
No awareness of
Cortical brain plasticity
Repetition suppression
Blue is the sound of
Re presentation
Flash click yes or no
Remember just what you saw
MTL know-show
MRI Technique
Pulse sequence
Thrum fiber optic flash
Bold optimism
Many acronyms
BOLD, ROI
What do they all mean?
Coils of current
Hip hop flip it and reverse
Acceleration
Downward deflection
Constrained vasculature or
Real inhibition?
3dDeconvolve
Preproc, vector files and scripts
Too much computing
MRI Safety
1.5 Tesla
Air pump too close to the ramp
Whoops! Right through the bore
Iron filing a
Weapon of mass destruction
Eye ball soup
Head locked in chamber
Frontal lobes cut loose by the
Executioner's pen
Whoosh crash bang ka-pow
Scanner meets the iron pump
So long 1.5
Miscellaneous
Brain thingy
Red, blue, green?
What does it all mean?
Don't know. Coffee?