Portal:Psychology/Featured picture archive

This page lists images previously featured on the Psychology Portal, with most recent images listed at the top.

March, April, and May 2006
Reification is the constructive or generative aspect of perception which allows an individual to infer spatial information not explicitly present in a given stimulus. It is an important concept in Gestalt psychology, illustrating the self-organizing abilities of the mind.

February 2006
A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner at the University of California, Berkeley. Among the most recent developments in neuroimaging, fMRI detects changes in blood flow related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord.