• Question: Do your brain scanners work??

    Asked by ugal to Antonia on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by sammiixx.
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      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Yes! Our brain scanners are giant magnets and because blood is slightly magnetic (it has iron in it), the scanner can ‘see’ where the blood goes in your brain. And then we can use that information to see which bit of the brain is doing a particular task.

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