Saygin and colleagues published a study last year using functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI), looking at what's happening in the brain that might explain the uncanny valley phenomenon.

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So reaching out through the ranks of my connections I came across the good fortune to pick the brain of Paul Jones, former Silicon Valley resident with Cooley Godward and current Chair of the Venture Best group for Michael Best and Friedrich.

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Doctors said the bullet grazed the teenager's brain when it struck her just above her left eye in the incident in the Swat Valley.

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Really, this was more an indictment of Silicon Valley, 20 years into home computers, than a testimony to Steve's big brain.

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Thames Valley Police said the post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a bleed on the brain.

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