
The Brain in Love
This is Love
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I'm Phoebe Judge, and This Is Love
Dessa wanted to know if she could train herself, train her brain, to respond differently to this person she'd been so focused on for years and years. Inspired by doctor fisher's f mri studies, she wanted to see her brain, to see if she could see in an image where her feelings were. Dessa was shown images of two men, the man she loved and another man, a friend. And we measured the response my brain had to each of these images as they flashed in succession. By the time we were done, she was able to guess pretty confidently which of the two guys i was in love with, based on the way that my brain responded.
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