The scans were recorded by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) .

该结果由功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）记录。

The scientists used a method called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI.

科学家们使用了一种名为功能性磁共振成像(fMRI)的方法。

Volunteers listened to audio clips while having their brains scanned by an fMRI machine.

志愿者一边听音频片段，一边用功能磁共振成像仪扫描他们的大脑。

The researchers used fMRI to study the brain as the polyglots listened to different languages.

研究人员使用功能性磁共振成像来研究多语言者在听不同语言时的大脑活动。

It's not comfortable to sit in an fMRI for an hour and listen to music.

坐在功能性核共振仪里听一小时音乐并不舒服。

And fMRI brain scans show that ayahuasca causes a significant decrease in activity within the default mode network.

功能性脑部核磁共振扫描显示，死藤水导致默认模式网络中的活动显着减少。

In fMRI, the brain is studied through images that measure changes in blood flow in different areas of the brain.

在功能性磁共振成像中，通过测量大脑不同区域血流变化的图像来研究大脑。

Using something like fMRI or EEG, we can take what are like little snapshots of the brain while it's reading.

用 fMRI 或 EEG 这样的技术，我们可以在人阅读时拍下大脑的快照。

And assume that meant the researchers directly tracked brain activity through an fMRI scan, or EEG recording, which they didn't.

并推测研究人员通过核磁共振扫描或脑电图记录直接追踪大脑活动——但他们并未如此。

And fMRI studies show us that several parts of our brain and pathways are activated when we experience and express gratitude.

功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）研究表明，当我们体验和表达感恩时，我们大脑的多个部位和神经通路都会被激活。

Well fMRI machines, they take a long time, 45 minutes to an hour just to get one scan of the brain.

而功能性核共振仪耗时很长——扫描一个人的大脑需要 45 分钟至一小时。

The fmri scans showed that several clusters of connectivity between parts of those brains had strengthened during the experiment.

功能磁共振成像扫描显示，在实验过程中，这些大脑部分之间的几个连接簇得到了加强。

An fMRI can identify chemical and other changes resulting from blood flow.

fMRI 可以识别由血流引起的化学变化和其他变化。

After both days, Tomova and her colleagues put the people in a fMRI machine.

两天后， Tomova 和她的同事们将这些人放在 fMRI 机器中。

And based on the fMRI results, it turns out that neither the language nor the math camps have the whole story right.

基于功能磁共振成像的结果，语言和数学阵营都不是完全正确。

The fMRI scans also showed changes in their brain activity while processing recent and day-old memories.

fMRI 扫描还显示了他们在处理最近和一天前的记忆时大脑活动的变化。

So in the 2011 study, researchers teamed up with Buddhist monks who meditated while the researchers watched their brains during an fMRI scan.

因此，在2011年的研究中，研究人员与冥想的佛教僧侣合作，同时通过功能磁共振扫描观察他们的大脑。

The researchers had volunteers play a learning game, while getting their brain scanned by an fMRI machine.

研究人员让志愿者玩学习游戏，同时用功能磁共振成像机器扫描他们的大脑。

FMRI research shows that the extra time spent focusing on scent changes the brain of experienced smellers.

FMRI 研究表明，花更多的时间专注于气味会改变有经验的嗅觉者的大脑。

They recruited 43 proficient coders, put them in an fMRI machine and had them solve problems shown either as a sentence or using snippets of code.

他们招募了43名熟练的程序员，将他们放在功能磁共振成型机中，让他们用句子或代码片段来解决问题。