Brain Activity During Complex Task (VIDEO)

University of California - Berkeley

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For a more difficult task, saying a word that is the opposite of another word, people's brains required 2-3 seconds to detect (yellow), interpret and search for an answer(red) and respond (blue), with sustained prefrontal lobe activity (red) to coordinate all areas of the brain involved.

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video by Avgusta Shestyuk and Robert Knight, UC Berkeley

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