"I just, I really thought there was, I thought there was just like so much more that I was missing. And if I could possibly see it, it would be a huge revelation for me," he says. "So they put the images in front of me before the stimulation and I didn't have a single idea what I was seeing." He adds: "They said, we don't care if you don't get it right... Then we're going to do this stimulation on you".
The story of John Elder Robison is one of Maya’s favorite episodes and it’s also a top choice in our listener favorites series. John is a gifted sound engineer whose rare ability to understand machines propelled him to work with the likes of Kiss and Diana Ross. But the one thing he always felt was lacking was his ability to understand people emotionally. In an effort to see if he could change that, he volunteered to participate in an experimental brain study.
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