Brain Scans Shine Light On How We Solve Clues
Partnered with machine learning, brain scans reveal how people understand objects in our world.
Film Memento helped uncover how the brain remembers and interprets events from clues
Key repeating moments in the film give viewers the information they need to understand the storyline. The scenes cause identical reactions in the viewer’s brain. The results deepen our understanding of how the brain functions, how narratives work in film, and...A film research study shows how the brain reacts to difficult moral issues
The family relationship between film characters clearly affects the reactions in the viewers’ brain. Are we more prone to help the person that resembles us the most? Social neuroscientists have studied the effects of similarity by showing a re-edited version of the film My Sister’s Keeper to a group of subjects and by giving them a moral dilemma to consider while measuring their brain function by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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