ABSTRACT
Brain research has proliferated during the last decade and continues to do so even now as newer technologies for examining neural processes continue to evolve. These allow us an unprecedented opportunity to study detailed aspects of brain functioning never before possible. To study the changes in a person’s brain from microsecond to microsecond as he or she engages in some specific activity, such as listening to music or reading a book, measuring these changes in “real time,” and determining where such changes may take place, is remarkable. These new sophisticated technologies for examining the workings of the brain hold the potential to answer many of the most basic questions about ourselves, such as what physically drives our thoughts, feelings, and behavior and what constitutes the physical basis for conscious experience and unconscious processes under various conditions.
