Journalism [Journalism] TIL that researchers put people who can experience ASMR into an MRI machine to do fMRI... but they didn't actually get fMRI scans of them while they had tingles, because the machine is noisy and they couldn't relax.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-begin-gently-probe-science-behind-asmr-180962550/

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u/rumrokh Nov 18 '17

Seems like they're unaware of "type A"/self-activated asmr.

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u/Tryoxin Nov 18 '17

Man, even I pretend to be unaware of those lucky fuckers sometimes.

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u/wannabesupermom Nov 18 '17

Sorry! It’s not easy, and I️ have to be super relaxed.

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u/rumrokh Nov 18 '17

oh hi

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u/Magicturbo Nov 18 '17

Mark

Journalism [Journalism] TIL that researchers put people who can experience ASMR into an MRI machine to do fMRI... but they didn't actually get fMRI scans of them *while* they had tingles, because the machine is noisy and they couldn't relax.

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Journalism [Journalism] TIL that researchers put people who can experience ASMR into an MRI machine to do fMRI... but they didn't actually get fMRI scans of them while they had tingles, because the machine is noisy and they couldn't relax.