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Sarah Gumpert, 24, lies motionless on his back, over aschblonde hair has a white helmet gestülpt, plugs in his ears, in each hand she holds a small box with three buttons. A quiet hum, slowly driving the sun high, then stops in front of about 60 centimeters wide opening of a large aircraft turbine apparatus. There go into it.
With your head forward and finally Gumpert is to tiptoe into the tube disappeared. To her skull, it will be around shortly after that terrible clank, whir, rumble - a roar, when preparing the apparatus for at least a time before.
Observe how people reckon, love, grieve
The student only needs to play a game. From speakers schallt a voice from the control room in the tube: "Can you hear me? Well, then it is now happening with the first measurement." During the next hour must Gumpert of six buttons each press the right: On a screen gets color and must be displayed by pressing a button on the order of response. 432-times in a row.
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Sarah does not usually longer than a second to sign up for a button to decide, and makes hardly any mistakes. "As a child I learned a lot playing with the computer," she says and laughs afterwards. "I think that trains the reaction."
Medical student is a Gumpert of 50 subjects for a study at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf her body as a precious object trying to provide: their brain. With the so-called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) watch Michael Rose, 42, and his colleagues from the Institute for Systemic Neurosciences at the brain thinking. The question for researchers: Are in fact, as previously assumed, independent cognitive systems for each of conscious and unconscious learning responsibility? "We believe that, for example in the regions for both perception and motor function both at the same place is possible," explained Rose. Hence the keystrokes: "Thanks to the pictures afterwards, we will know exactly what brain areas are involved."
Welcome to the wonderful world of brain research. Still, the people Denkorgan of psychologists, medical doctors and biologists puzzling. While the science now knows almost exactly how the nerve cells communicate, including voice or Sehzentren, the motor, they have long been located. But how and where exactly the man learns? How and where he decides, he feels anger, sadness, empathy?
Direct look into the soul
Especially in the last five to ten years, opened the brain imaging researchers the opportunity to present their theories on Human everything at the source to be examined: the brain, which they now are watching how it calculates, remembers, creates compassion.
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A working group at the Swiss neurobiologist Andreas Bartels has in the interplay of neurons even the seat of love discovered, especially in the regions of the brain, which also pounce on cocaine, cheered wildly as the neurons. And last year, California researchers, regelrecht in the minds of their subjects to read. They recognized in the visual cortex of the brain, which pictures the subjects had previously seen.
Very often students are of such psychological, medical or neurobiological investigations. Eight to ten euros per hour, the volunteers, many of the fascinating high-tech research and come again. Perhaps out of curiosity?
While solving the colorful images from the scanners, the little body-soul problem. The question of how to raise awareness for the sheer physical behavior, a brainstorm about the biochemistry of neurons are firing, it is by no means settled.
However, a closer look into the soul to get a maximum of a brilliant psychiatrist.
Unfortunately, the individual results of such studies rarely the subjects to be made available - even if he is still so much to lust after to know if his head is actually the love-lit areas when he scanners sees pictures of his girlfriend.
After getting the subjects sometimes cut their own images of the brain on a CD issued. And who has the chance to glimpse into this world in allergeheimste own body?
Extraneous acts and strangely lifeless, even on the computer images, probably because the brain is the feeling so far away. Never knocks, never jerks or krampft it, it feels neither warm nor cold.
Prospect of making money on stupid tasks ambitious
"My own brain coils look - that was cool," says Benedikt Vogt, 22 "I could like a slide show through my brain zap." Vogt has joined in an attempt by the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Bonn. There is this question of so-called neuro-economics, and the reactions of human brains on matters of money to fathom.
Vogt gauge should be a series of two almost identical pictures to compare. "Almost all were works of art, sometimes classical, sometimes abstract," explains the Bonn economics student. The question was: how many differences you find? "A bit like a puzzle on a cornflakes pack." Only that he is in the tubes are humming, a binocular-like special glasses and with the help of four keys had to indicate whether one, two, three or four differences were discovered.
Up to this point yet touched the whole thing no financial interests. Anders saw it as his researcher for correct answers promised a reward. The idea of the experiment: The neuro-economists wanted to see if the brain works differently when an external stimulus such as money drives people. Or is an inner motivation, ambition, the same areas to activate?
Still, the study is not completed. Previous attempts have shown that relatively simple tests, such as memory tasks, the brain increases seen when the participants were promised money. For more complex puzzles, this was not the case.
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