{"id":30241,"date":"2016-09-16T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mri-scanner-sees-emotions-flickering-across-an-idle-mind"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:40:01","slug":"mri-scanner-sees-emotions-flickering-across-an-idle-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mri-scanner-sees-emotions-flickering-across-an-idle-mind","title":{"rendered":"MRI scanner sees emotions flickering across an idle mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mri-scanner-sees-emotions-flickering-across-an-idle-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you relax and let your mind drift aimlessly, you might remember a pleasant vacation, an angry confrontation in traffic or maybe the loss of a loved one.<\/p>\n<p>And now a team of researchers at Duke University say they can see those various emotional states flickering across the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s getting to be a bit like mind-reading,\u201d said Kevin LaBar, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke. \u201cEarlier studies have shown that functional MRI can identify whether a person is thinking about a face or a house. Our study is the first to show that specific emotions like fear and anger can be decoded from these scans as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-09-mri-scanner-emotions-flickering-idle.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;09-mri-scanner-emotio...-idle.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you relax and let your mind drift aimlessly, you might remember a pleasant vacation, an angry confrontation in traffic or maybe the loss of a loved one. And now a team of researchers at Duke University say they can see those various emotional states flickering across the human brain. \u201cIt\u2019s getting to be a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-habitats","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49864,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241\/revisions\/49864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}