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A team in Maryland was able to use fMRI to identify activity in Broca's region associated with thinking a single word. No mention of whether or not the activity was unique to the word chosen (I suspect not).
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17458&ch=biotech
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Neuroscience
fMRI used to detect single-word thought
A team in Maryland was able to use fMRI to identify activity in Broca's region associated with thinking a single word. No mention of whether or not the activity was unique to the word chosen (I suspect not).
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17458&ch=biotech
- Psychopaths Unmoved By Words
Imagine I show you the word “love” and I ask you to classify it as positive or negative. You’ll classify it far quicker as positive, if just beforehand I had showed you another positive word such as “honesty” – a phenomenon that’s known...
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Last year researchers reported they were able to use real-time images of a person’s brain activity to tell what version of an ambiguous shape they were looking at. Now Leun Otten and colleagues report that they can use measures of the brain’s surface...
- The "face Module" Identified In Moneys?
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- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: The Wernicke Conundrum And Primary Progressive Aphasia
M-Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson, Sandra Weintraub, and Emily J. Rogalski (2015). The Wernicke conundrum and the anatomy of language comprehension in primary progressive aphasia. Brain. [Published online June 25 2015 doi:10.1093/brain/awv154] Wernicke’s...
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