To some extent, if we put you in an fMRI scanner and observed what you're doing in real time, by looking at the activity patterns in your brain we can tell whether you are thinking about music or thinking about sex.

某种程度来讲,如果我们对你进行,功能性核磁共振成像扫描,观察你的实时活动,通过观察你的大脑活动模式,我们可以看出你是想到了音乐,还是想到了性

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And some days it seems like everyone with some slack time and a scanner is lining up to take their shot.

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So the problem is how to facilitate this, given that it is not practical to put them in a scanner every time someone wants to ask them a question.

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In the second part of the study, participants were again asked to estimate the probability of each event happening to them, but this time they were not in the fMRI scanner.

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