Favorite case study of weird things that happen in deep brain stimulation: the guy who became a Johnny Cash fan (and recovered from OCD).https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00152/full …
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman
Extremely specific, unlikely to just be what the researchers wanted to see.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman
Oh, literally what’s weird about it? It’s bizarre that putting an electrode in your brain could make you like a *specific* singer. (Though of course I don’t think this means there’s a Johnny Cash brain region; the nucleus accumbens is involved in motivation and reward generally)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
I thought usually people who like art like some *specific* art?
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman
Yeah, I expect that the electric stimulation probably made the patient more likely to glom into *some* new music (or some experience generally) and Johnny Cash was just what this guy happened to fixate on.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman
By calling it “weird” I guess I was implicitly giving credence to the mistaken impression I’d expect people to have like “gosh it’s weird there’s a Johnny Cash region in the brain!”
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Also trying to give a self-deprecating excuse for finding it interesting at all.
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