Author

Marcel Just

<a href="http://www.psy.cmu.edu/people/just.html">Marcel Just</a> is the director of the <a href="http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/">Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University</a>, where he and his team use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans to examine brain activation as people perform various high-level tasks such as spatial thinking, problem solving, multitasking, and real-time, dynamic decision making.

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‘We measure the amount of brain activity while somebody’s doing something. You can’t generate more activity beyond a certain point. There’s an upper limit.’