A few years ago, I was doing an fMRI study of infant brains. The scientific questions we were asking (with amazing grad student @bmhdeen) were about the organization of functional activity in infant brains when viewing meaningful visual images, like faces and natural scenes.
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Some prior data and theories suggested that infants’ functional organization should be dramatically different from adults’. (I hoped so — when studying development, the most exciting results reveal what changes). 3/14
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Actually, we found that the large scale organization of visual responses was surprising similar in infants and adults; though there were hints of subtler differences. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13995 … 4/14
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Amazing grad student
@heatherlkos is doing the next round of studies. She has scanned dozens more babies! Stay tuned for new science.Prikaži ovu nit -
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Anyway, kind of by coincidence and kind of not, the first fMRI study of infant brains, which I had been planning for 6 years, actually got going when… I had a baby. 7/14pic.twitter.com/0so0fnLQGM
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The minute he was born, lying on my chest still warm and goopy, I looked into his black eyes for the first time, and I knew: (i) I was deeply inexplicably in love with him, and (ii) as soon as possible, I wanted to scan his brain. 8/14
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So, I spent many many many hours squashed inside an MRI machine with my infant, while we figured out how to collect these data. This talk includes some videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDefVd8DRxM … 9/14
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I had lots of time to think, and I thought: wouldn’t it be amazing to see an MRI of the two of us in here? A Mother and Child, one of the oldest images, made new. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why--captured-MRI-mother-child-180957207/ … 10/14
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It took us a year to figure out how to make it, so the child in this image is my second son. Thank you
@bmhdeen and Atsushi Takahashi! 11/14Prikaži ovu nit -
At some point we thought: would it be cool to overlay the activation (from our actual science study on watching face movies) onto this picture? So, we did. 12/14
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In answer to all the controversies and tweeting this weekend: The activations are real fMRI results, of hemodynamic responses while looking at a movies of faces, compared to movies of scenes. They really are from that baby. 13/14
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They have nothing to do with oxytocin, hormones, kissing, or breastfeeding. Fin.
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