• Question: do you use any other waves apart from sound waves such as gamma rays or x-rays?

    Asked by claretbeany95 to Carolyn on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Carolyn McGettigan answered on 16 Mar 2010:


      I use sound waves in terms of how we hear and understand them, rather than for imaging (like ultrasound…). So, I have run experiments where I play people sounds like distorted sentences over headphones and measure (using an MRI scanner) what happens in their brains when they try to understand what the sentences mean.

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