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Science 12 March 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5664, pp. 1617 - 1618
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096416
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Seeing the World in the Same Way

Luiz Pessoa

When two people watch the same movie, are their brains activated in the same way? This question is addressed in a new study (Hasson et al.) that seeks to use the functional magnetic resonance imaging signals from one person's brain as that person watches a movie, to predict the signals in another individual's brain when that person watches the same movie segment. In an accompanying Perspective, Pessoa discusses the results and ponders whether humans experience movies in the same manner.

The author is in the Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. E-mail: pessoa{at}brown.edu

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The effect of movies on the nervous system
Rainer Spiegel
Science Online, 6 Apr 2004 [Full text]

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