Mapping the Brain

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley published a new study about brain activity in people listening to podcasts, the New York Times reported. “Using novel computational methods, the group broke down the stories into units of meaning: social elements, for example, like friends and parties, as well as locations and emotions. They found that these concepts fell into 12 categories that tended to cause activation in the same parts of people’s brains at the same points throughout the stories,” the article said.