They also monitored brain activity among some volunteers to see what parts of the brain were most excited when people talked about themselves as opposed to other people.

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He sounded pretty excited yesterday as we talked about the World Series and how the Cards are doing .

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And we went in and talked them, and we were very excited about it, and they were kind of lukewarm, to say the least, in the room.

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The more I talked about the job with my new partner, the more excited I got.

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