On her back in a dark tube, Blair Smith held still as a scanner combed her brain with magnetic waves. Words flashed by her eyes: tack, vase, hope, glow, vague, cade. The 11-year-old had been told to press the button in her right hand if the word was real, the button in her left if it was nonsense. The answer itself was less important than the map the scanner would make of which areas of Blair's brain lit up when she struggled with a word.
Brain research may prove useful in classrooms
Friday, November 7, 2008 | 12:00 p.m. CST;
updated 10:41 a.m. CST, Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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