I appreciate this may seem like a stupid question and it probably is. I have to design a theoretical research proposal using a neuroimaging technique to investigate a novel area in attention research (in 1000 words!) for my psychology MSc.

I want to measure attention/ distraction when participants have i) no distraction ii) intermittent unpredictable vibrations as in phone silent mode iii) different audio notifications (email, whatsapp, text, phonecall etc). I intend to have participants do some kind of CogLab attention experiment.

I suck at biology/ hard science in general and the more I read about neuroimaging types the more confused I am getting. I just need to know the best type to use for this, why and how it's used (eg electrodes on head). In my confused little mind I am thinking that what will show is different bits of the brain being stimulated or not dependent on the distraction. I hypothesize that the vibration (silent phone) condition will result in the most distraction. I don't think I need to go in to much detail regarding what I'm looking for as our learning is very scant, this is theoretical study and I only have 1,000 words (most of which are already written) but I don't want to fail because I've chosen completely the wrong thing!

Any help much appreciated!!!!

Thanks