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Love in the laboratory

February 19, 2024
By Anonymous

In 2005, a scientist named Semir Zeki conducted an interesting experiment about love in our brains. He asked 17 people to bring pictures of their loved ones to the laboratory and look at them while their brains were being scanned. Here are the steps of the experiment:

 

1.People printed out pictures of their loved ones and brought them to the laboratory.

 

2.They were placed inside a brain scanner and looked at the images for 30 seconds each.

 

3.The scanner examined what was happening in their brains while they looked at the pictures.

 

4.Then, they looked at images of people they recognized but were not very close to.

 

5.While they looked at these images, the scanner examined their brains again.

 

6.Scientists observed the brain activity to see which parts lit up when they looked at loved ones compared to acquaintances.

 

7.They found that the parts of the brain associated with positive emotions, desire, and related feelings were more active when looking at loved ones.

 

8.This experiment showed that love activates specific parts of our brains, all related to positive emotions, desire, and feelings.

 

Therefore, this experiment conducted by Semir Zeki in 2005 helped us understand more about how love works in our brains.


The author's comments:

I have researched about love scientifically and I hope and wish that it is eligible to be published in a magazine.


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