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Hopkins researchers launch writing contest to learn about how the brain processes stories

From left Iris Lee, incoming Johns Hopkins University graduate student, Janice Chen, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Sammy Tavassoli, PhD student, are running a short story contest, the fiction Made to Read and Investigate (fMRI) Writing Prize. The name plays on functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, which they will use to research the relationship between memory and brain imaging.
From left Iris Lee, incoming Johns Hopkins University graduate student, Janice Chen, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Sammy Tavassoli, PhD student, are running a short story contest, the fiction Made to Read and Investigate (fMRI) Writing Prize. The name plays on functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, which they will use to research the relationship between memory and brain imaging.
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A Johns Hopkins University research team is asking for the public's help in mapping the specific areas of the brain that kick into high gear when we read a novel or buy movie tickets.

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