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From the Ted Talk by Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind

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So to give you a concrete feel for how a functional MRI experiment goes and what you can laern from it and what you can't, let me describe one of the first studies I ever did. We wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces, and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of prosopagnosia that I described a moment ago, but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a naroml person, so we set out to look for it. So I was the first subject. I went into the scanner, I lay on my back, I held my head as still as I could while sarting at pictures of faces like these and objects like these and faces and objects for hours. So as somebody who has pretty close to the wrlod rceord of total nbumer of hours sepnt inside an MRI scanner, I can tell you that one of the skills that's really imparontt for MRI research is bladder control. (Laughter)

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So to give you a concrete feel for how a functional MRI experiment goes and what you can _____ from it and what you can't, let me describe one of the first studies I ever did. We wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces, and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of prosopagnosia that I described a moment ago, but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a ______ person, so we set out to look for it. So I was the first subject. I went into the scanner, I lay on my back, I held my head as still as I could while _______ at pictures of faces like these and objects like these and faces and objects for hours. So as somebody who has pretty close to the _____ ______ of total ______ of hours _____ inside an MRI scanner, I can tell you that one of the skills that's really _________ for MRI research is bladder control. (Laughter)

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Original Text


So to give you a concrete feel for how a functional MRI experiment goes and what you can learn from it and what you can't, let me describe one of the first studies I ever did. We wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces, and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of prosopagnosia that I described a moment ago, but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a normal person, so we set out to look for it. So I was the first subject. I went into the scanner, I lay on my back, I held my head as still as I could while staring at pictures of faces like these and objects like these and faces and objects for hours. So as somebody who has pretty close to the world record of total number of hours spent inside an MRI scanner, I can tell you that one of the skills that's really important for MRI research is bladder control. (Laughter)

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