%C Langkawi %T Brain activation during cognitive tasks: An overview of EEG and fMRI studies %A H.U. Amin %A A.S. Malik %A N. Badruddin %A W.-T. Chooi %P 950-953 %K Brain activation; Brain controls; Cognitive psychology; Cognitive task; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; retention; retrieval; Three categories, Biomedical engineering; Brain; Electroencephalography; Electrophysiology; Encoding (symbols); Magnetic resonance imaging, Process control %X Brain controls all body functions that enable us to perform daily life events dynamically. Memory is an important part of brain that controls and processes our present and past information and interconnects with future plans to assist corresponding dynamic activities of whole body. In cognitive psychology, human memory processes are functionally divided into three categories namely encoding, retention, and recalling. This paper provides an overview of memory processes and brain regions that are activated during these processes using electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We discussed issues related to cognitive tasks design that may be helpful in future memory research to conduct experiment with EEG and fMRI in a better way. © 2012 IEEE. %D 2012 %R 10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498189 %O cited By 20; Conference of 2012 2nd IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2012 ; Conference Date: 17 December 2012 Through 19 December 2012; Conference Code:96763 %J 2012 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2012 %L scholars2454