It will be a light week blogging for me because the kissing experiment requires a good deal of time and attention to run. I'm extremely grateful to David Poeppel and the terrific people working in his lab for all of their support and enthusiasm on this project. This morning I'm headed back to the Meyer building at NYU for day two of brain scanning volunteer subjects--liquid helium and all... So for now I'll leave you with a few more photos from my test run yesterday in the MEG. On the right I'm suited up in scrubs wondering what I've gotten myself into and how in the world I went from sea cucumber reproductive biology to kissing experimentation. A couple of additional images are below the fold and remember you can follow the research live on Twitter @Sheril_. Adjusting earplugs before getting into the machine:
The lab manager's manual assessment of the curvature of my head:
