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Dead salmon 'responds' to portraits of people
New Scientist ^ | September 18, 2009 | Ewen Calloway

Posted on 09/22/2009 3:40:51 PM PDT by ancientart

The latest weapon in the battle over the legitimacy of some functional brain scanning studies is a dead fish.

In study titled "Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon", researchers scanned 1.7 kg (3.8 pounds) of a dead salmon while it was shown images of humans in various social situations. It's not clear how long the salmon had been dead by the time it was studied, but Craig Bennett at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says he scanned it about an hour after picking it up from the supermarket, so it was definitely already a goner.

So what did he and his colleagues find? Bizarrely, a region of the dead salmon's brain lit up during the task.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brainimaging; fish; salmon
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1 posted on 09/22/2009 3:40:52 PM PDT by ancientart
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To: ancientart

I love salmon. Just as much as I love Burger King.


2 posted on 09/22/2009 3:42:10 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: ancientart

and he was tasty


3 posted on 09/22/2009 3:42:43 PM PDT by Revelation 911 (How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
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To: ancientart

They also can sing after stuffed and mounted on the wall!


4 posted on 09/22/2009 3:46:44 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: ancientart
"Dead salmon 'responds' to portraits of people"

And overwhelmingly vote Democratic...

5 posted on 09/22/2009 3:52:50 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: ancientart

Zombie Salmon!


6 posted on 09/22/2009 3:52:52 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: ancientart
Scientist: "I need grant money. This money will be used to purchase the necessary supplies for my project."
Bureaucrat: "What supplies?"
Scientist: "Salmon."
Bureaucrat: "What will you do with the supplies when you're finished with them?"
Scientist: "Don't worry. We'll invite you to the cookouts."
Bureaucrat: "Grant approved."
7 posted on 09/22/2009 3:54:21 PM PDT by ConfusedAndLovingIt
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To: ancientart
Quick, someone call the White House. They've discovered a new way of vetting the staff czars.


8 posted on 09/22/2009 3:57:14 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: ancientart

Maybe he’s pining for the fjords.


9 posted on 09/22/2009 3:58:23 PM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: pnut22

Oh! Yours does too! I thought I had something special....


10 posted on 09/22/2009 4:01:33 PM PDT by classified
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To: ancientart

11 posted on 09/22/2009 4:02:49 PM PDT by socialismislost
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To: ancientart

Who would think of monitoring a dead salmon’s brain while showing it pictures of people?


12 posted on 09/22/2009 4:13:08 PM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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To: pnut22
They also can sing after stuffed and mounted on the wall!

Aw, those are bass, man. They sing in bass and want to go back to the river.

13 posted on 09/22/2009 4:15:57 PM PDT by Ole Okie (American)
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To: ancientart

ping!


14 posted on 09/22/2009 4:22:03 PM PDT by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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To: ReagansShinyHair

The point was actually to show the weaknesses of other brain MRI studies.


15 posted on 09/22/2009 4:33:06 PM PDT by mlo
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To: ancientart

Along the same lines of demonstarting flaws in medical testing is a great article in last months Wired magazine about the Placebo effect in pharmaceuticals. http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all


16 posted on 09/22/2009 4:40:53 PM PDT by azcap (Who is John Galt ? www.conservativeshirts.com)
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To: Ole Okie
I went looking for a pic of a singing salmon and found this. That's one big fish!


17 posted on 09/22/2009 4:45:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: ReagansShinyHair
Who would think of monitoring a dead salmon’s brain while showing it pictures of people?

You get the feeling a bong may have been involved in the test planning.

18 posted on 09/22/2009 4:50:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ancientart

Another Santa Barbara citizen who has been growing some really good stuff illegally.


19 posted on 09/22/2009 4:54:30 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: mlo

Yes, but a dead salmon? It sounds like such an odd idea.

I DID wonder if a bong was involved.


20 posted on 09/22/2009 5:16:00 PM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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