this looks scarier than it really was. it was crucial that i not move. i got real fidgety after an hour.... some folks get claustrophobic reaction, but i was OK with the tight space. the worst part actually was the hour and more of sentences i had to react to:
the boy is chasing the girl, who is hiding under the desk. the man is listening to the woman tell about her day. the boy whom the girl is chasing is hiding under the desk. the man who is talking to the woman is eating ice cream. and so forth for over an hour....
i had to listen to the sentence and then choose which of the photos i saw portrayed the content of the sentence. the investigators are looking at "embedded" structures and how they are processed.
anyway, when i was done, my brain hurt! and i don't think the magnetism had anything to do with it...
so jed and his cohorts will analyze the pictures of my brain while i was processing this kind of linguistic data, so they can see what is different in the brains of those who suffer speech loss.
and i will get paid a bit for my participation... not much, but it will be more than busfare.
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