Recent Trends
One of the most significant recent trends in cognitive neuroscience is that the focuses of research have gradually expanded from the localization of brain area(s) for a specific function in the adult brain using a single technology, studies have been diverging in several different directions such as monitoring REM sleep via polygraphy, a machine that is capable of taking down the electrical activity of brain while sleeping. Advances in non-invasive functional neuroimaging and associated data analysis methods have also made it possible to use highly naturalistic stimuli and tasks such as feature films depicting social interactions in cognitive neuroscience studies .
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