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Universities vie for tool that shows brains at work

By Carey Goldberg
Globe Staff / February 10, 2004

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A brain scanner costs a couple of million dollars. It is so complex to run, it needs frequent babying by a physicist. And over the last several years, its power to watch the human mind at work has become so irresistibly seductive that psychology researchers from Cambridge to Berkeley are deciding they simply must have a "magnet." (Full Article: 914 Words)

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