The Salmon of Doubt*

Salmon for sale in a Parisian fish marketI don’t think I am particularly good at reading social situations, but I get by. But I would guess that I am better at reading social situations than a dead salmon. A few years ago, Bennett and coworkers used the latest hi-tech method to study brain activity, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to study the brain of dead salmon. While they were using the brain imaging technique on the brain of the deceased salmon, they showed it pictures of groups of people in different social situations.

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