You Have Just Joined a Psychology Lab and Are Working

Multiple Choice

You have just joined a psychology lab and are working with a group of researchers who are interested in how the brain responds to different kinds of facial expressions (e.g. happy, scared, angry, etc,.) . They ask you if you have any ideas for experiments. You suggest testing what happens when you temporarily disrupt a specific part of the brain involved with facial processing (the fusiform face area) when students are making judgments about face stimuli. What method would be appropriate to test that hypothesis?

A) a computerized axial tomography (CT) scan
B) transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
C) A functional MRI (fMRI)
D) None of these method would be appropriate to test that hypothesis.
E) ERP (event-related potentials)