The network in our heads: What our brains have in common with the internet
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 17:11
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our brain works as a set of networks - much like the internet. Could our understanding of the internet help us in understanding our brains? Gabriele Lohmann and her colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, have now developed a method for utilizing techniques known from internet search engines to analyze fMRI data of the human brain. Using this new method, they compared hungry versus sated subjects and found that subjects seem to feel "rewarded" when they are sated.