Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used functional MRI scans to track which brain regions activated when 176 young adults watched scenes from "The Social Network," "Home Alone" ...

Our brains have to do a lot of work when we watch a movie. There are plots to follow, dialogue to interpret, visuals to take in, and more. Now, scientists have created a detailed map of how the human ...

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What goes on in your brain while watching a movie? MIT neuroscientists have made remarkable progress in answering this question by creating the most detailed functional brain map to date. By observing ...

A person's brain performs an intricate juggling act while watching a movie, a new study demonstrates. Scans showed that 24 different brain networks and regions engage from scene-to-scene, based on ...

You might think it would be easy to see how our brains function while we are watching a movie. Just hook some viewers up to an electroencephalograph or a magnetic resonance imager (MRI) and see what ...

Horror movies have fascinated audiences worldwide with their spine-tingling thrills and chilling experiences. The team at YourTango took a deep dive into the world of horror and found that beyond the ...

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Popcorn brain is when you jump from one thought or activity to another with little attention. For example, while watching a movie you check your phone and end up also watching a TikTok video. We can ...

Using fMRI data collected from people viewing film clips, MIT neuroscientists created a comprehensive map of the cerebral cortex, identifying 24 networks that perform specific functions. The cerebral ...

In my first two posts on this subject, I described brain scans of people watching movies obtained by Uri Hasson and his group. Instead of a complicated prediction, this team simply looked at the ...