Dictionary of New fMRI Terms
T-ness Envy:
Jealousy that another imaging group has a higher field magnet
Jodie Fostering:
Trying to pull a weak signal out of noisy data, rather like Jodie Foster listening to radio signals for signs of alien life in the movie "Contact"
dMRI:
Dysfunctional magnetic resonance imaging, when your scanner is having a bad day
Subcortico-occipito-parieto-temporo-frontal network:
Euphemism for "it lights up the whole brain"
Screen Saver Scan:
A scan in which something goes horribly wrong, allowing you to look for, for example, "the screen saver area"
Brain Localizer:
A scan that is not particularly useful because it activates practially everything.
Voxel vomit (also, Road Pizza):
Bad data in which everything lights up
Gigabitch:
To complain loudly to one's co-workers that they're hogging all the disk space
Bite barf:
The gagging reflex caused by using a head restraint system
Bore-dumb:
The groggy feeling one has after coming out of a long scanning session
Princess-and-the-pea phenonmenon:
The excruciating pain caused by a small irritant under the head during a scan session