The functional MRI Laboratory at the University of Michigan, US, is one of the few research centres to have their own fully non-functional MRI machine – which they call the “Mock Scanner”. The “fake” scanner is fitted with a set of loudspeakers which can faithfully replay the not-inconsiderable noise of a real, working, MRI machine. […]
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Puzzling Experiment of the Day: Mock Crime Blink
Today’s Puzzling Experiment of the Day is described in this paper: “Detecting false intent using eye blink measures,” Frank M. Marchak [pictured here], Frontiers in Psychology, 4 (2013): 736. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Veridical Research and Design Corporation, Bozeman, MT, USA, explains: “Here we examined—across two […]