Israel: Research Into Mapping Emotions In The Brain
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Research conducted in Israel is exploring how emotions are created in the brain, by using a broad range of disciplines including psychiatry, cinematography, and computer engineering. Our local correspondents bring us the full report.
New research about how feelings are created in the human brain involves cinematography, psychiatry and computer engineering, as well as a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (or FMRI) scan.
It appears that until now research of the brain has focused on very specific areas of the brain.
The current research introduces a new concept.
[Professor Telma Hendler, Functional Brain Center, Director]:
"Now we understand that a lot of the information processing is depending actually on cooperation, or working together, of several regions of the brain.A group of regions that work together to perform a function is a network."
In order to investigate the connections between different parts of the brain, researchers show movies to the participants.
[Gal Raz, Tel Aviv University, Student]:
"Film can be pretty effective in emotional stimuli. This is a very common knowledge in the world of cinema study. And we respond to film with our brain, so my motivation was as at the color as in the field of cinema study to understand what happen in the brain."
Our brain is sending signals all the time.
A special computer program has been developed to identify and measure the emotions displayed when watching a movie. It works by analysing the data received from the FMRI scan.
[Yonatan Winetraub, School of Engineering, Tel Aviv University]:
"We can see that at the highest moment a lot of information exchange, a lot of regions are connected to each other and exchange information. That's what creates the emotion itself."
NTD News, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Research conducted in Israel is exploring how emotions are created in the brain, by using a broad range of disciplines including psychiatry, cinematography, and computer engineering. Our local correspondents bring us the full report.
New research about how feelings are created in the human brain involves cinematography, psychiatry and computer engineering, as well as a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (or FMRI) scan.
It appears that until now research of the brain has focused on very specific areas of the brain.
The current research introduces a new concept.
[Professor Telma Hendler, Functional Brain Center, Director]:
"Now we understand that a lot of the information processing is depending actually on cooperation, or working together, of several regions of the brain.A group of regions that work together to perform a function is a network."
In order to investigate the connections between different parts of the brain, researchers show movies to the participants.
[Gal Raz, Tel Aviv University, Student]:
"Film can be pretty effective in emotional stimuli. This is a very common knowledge in the world of cinema study. And we respond to film with our brain, so my motivation was as at the color as in the field of cinema study to understand what happen in the brain."
Our brain is sending signals all the time.
A special computer program has been developed to identify and measure the emotions displayed when watching a movie. It works by analysing the data received from the FMRI scan.
[Yonatan Winetraub, School of Engineering, Tel Aviv University]:
"We can see that at the highest moment a lot of information exchange, a lot of regions are connected to each other and exchange information. That's what creates the emotion itself."
NTD News, Tel Aviv, Israel