Stay Curious

SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AND UNLOCK ONE MORE ARTICLE FOR FREE.

Sign Up

VIEW OUR Privacy Policy


Discover Magazine Logo

WANT MORE? KEEP READING FOR AS LOW AS $1.99!

Subscribe

ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?

FIND MY SUBSCRIPTION
Advertisement

How Your Brain Gets In The Game

Discover the neural contributions to flow experience during video game playing and how specific game events impact engagement.

Newsletter

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news

Sign Up

You're running down a corridor in a castle that's under attack by terrorists.

Why would terrorists want to blow up a castle, you start to wonder, but your musings are cut short. As you round the corner, you bump into not one but three of the fortress-hating fiends. No problem - you're carrying an AK-47 which you picked up from the corpse of one of their buddies. You open fire, and two go down, but the third turns on you with his handgun.

Luckily, this castle is full of huge wooden crates, and you manage to duck behind one. He's out of ammo - but so are you. You desperately try to reload. Just before your new clip is in place... the experiment ends, and you're taken out of the MRI scanner.

This was what it must have been like to take part in an fMRI study just out from ...

Stay Curious

JoinOur List

Sign up for our weekly science updates

View our Privacy Policy

SubscribeTo The Magazine

Save up to 40% off the cover price when you subscribe to Discover magazine.

Subscribe
Advertisement

0 Free Articles