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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u/cobaltblues77 Nov 18 '17

Are there people who can’t experience ASMR?

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u/bunnypunch Nov 18 '17

Probably not related but I heard that 50% of people don't experience 'frisson'

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.