Creative Music Neurotechnology with Symphony of Minds Listening - Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing - page 266

12.3 An Overview of the Approach

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a procedure that measures brain
activity by detecting associated changes in blood ow. The measurements can be

presented graphically by colour-coding the strength of activation across the brain.
Figure 12.1 shows a typical representation of an fMRI scan of a person listening to
music, displaying the activity of the brain at a speci

c window of time. In this case,

Fig. 12.1 A typical representation of an fMRI scan, showing 14 slices of the brain. The actual
scanning for this project comprised 36 slices ' snapshots taken every 2 s