No tool gets more use than the Zamboni-size functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, which takes neural eavesdropping to a new level.

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The researchers used fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans to monitor brain activity in 15 people with autistic spectrum disorders and 15 without.

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Scanning their brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the scientists found that a region involved in language processing - the temporal lobe, part of the prefrontal cortex - was activated during verbal learning in rested patients.

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In the third session the music alternated between enjoyed and neutral, while a functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI scan was made.

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Using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers were able to record the brain's activity in response to internal and external stimuli such as eating and drinking.

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The test methods, developed by Monti and his colleagues, used functional magnetic resonance imaging scans to measure Sharon's responses.

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But studies using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) can show what's happening in the brain.

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Daniel Langleben, of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, uses a brain-scanning technique called functional magnetic-resonance imaging to probe his subjects' honesty.

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For the new research, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, David Tolin of the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut, recruited 107 people for brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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