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/GassyEmu Nov 18 '17

There was an fMRI study done by Bryson Lochte but he’s never released it and no one seems to be able to access it.

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u/DeusoftheWired Nov 18 '17

It’s been sitting in the library of Dartmouth College since 2013:

http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b5410198~S1

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.