Summary: By analyzing fMRI scans of people watching films, neuroscientists have created a comprehensive functional map of the brain, showing how it ac

How the Brain Reacts to Movie Scenes

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Summary: By analyzing fMRI scans of people watching films, neuroscientists have created a comprehensive functional map of the brain, showing how it activates in response to complex scenes. This study identified 24 distinct networks that process aspects like faces, speech, or movement, and revealed how executive functions shift between easy and challenging scenes.

Using machine learning on data from the Human Connectome Project, the research mapped areas that respond to diverse audio-visual stimuli. The findings could inform future studies on how individual brain responses vary with age or cognitive disorders.

By scanning the brains of people while they watched movie clips, neuroscientists have created the most detailed functional map of the brain to date.

The fMRI analysis, publishing November 6 in the Cell Press journal Neuron, shows how different brain networks light up when participants viewed short clips from a range of independent and Hollywood films including Inception, The Social Network, and Home Alone.

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