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86 - Cameron Ellis: Using fMRI to study what it is like to be an infant

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The Most Surprising Thing About Infants in Your Research

The way that we run the scans it's to accommodate that kind of fussiness or variability and fussiness. Infants do get fussy they get bored of what we're showing them they feel separation anxiety. We don't want infants to be unhappy. And so we are trying to make it so that it's as comfortable as enjoyable as possible. So, reading a topic is the idea that information in the world is projected onto your retina,. That gets taken in through the retina percolated through the thalamus and ultimately to the early visual system.

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