Brains!
For science group this month we went to see a Cognitive Neuroscientist who just happens to be doing a study on teenage girls, so I volunteered The Neice. So tomorrow we are going to have an adventure and she’s going to have her brain scanned. I’m such a nice aunt.
I’ll know more tomorrow, but as I understand it the study is to see if there is a difference in the emotional behaviour of a teenager, as compared to an adult, which can be tracked in the brain.
[…] So what happened. First of all she had a psychology test where I think she had to describe the meaning of words and other such things (maybe she’ll write something in the comments?), and then the brain scan - she has a very classical brain - very symmetrical and her powers of staying still were awesome. The Scientists used an MRI to scan her brain, which is not a particularly nice experience, it’s very noisy and she had to think and respond to questions on a screen at the same time. She did great. […]