Professor Robert Shulman is taking advantage of the MRS and fMRI experimental programs at the MRCenter to continue and extend research on the nature of brain activity. He is exploring the meaningfulness of the the high baseline brain activity, for functional imaging and for the nature of  the brain.  He has shown how the high baseline activity disagrees with the assumptions of modern cognitive psychology which are the basis of the differencing method of fMRI, where the large baseline activity is discarded. Contrary to this neglect, he has shown that the baseline activity can , with
the help of experiments in the MRC, suggest boundary conditions for a more realistic psychology , which can account for  the presently neglected subjectivity..