Dr Pankaj Sah, a neuroscientist at the Australian National University in Canberra, welcomed the study.
Professor Paul Matthews, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, says a mind-reading machine is pure science fiction.
Tali Sharot, a neuroscientist at University College London, has studied how our brains perpetuate this bias.
Brian Cummings, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, says calling it pseudoscience would be generous.
Her husband is a neuroscientist and she herself is interested in art's overlaps with science and psychology.
As a medical student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in Piscataway, he had planned to become a neuroscientist.
For Ed Boyden, a neuroscientist at MIT, looking for genes allows him to figure out what experiments to conduct.
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Dr Pat Levitt, a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania said the artificial brain had "really significant potential".
However, as the story goes, a neuroscientist performing these studies happened to scan his own brain seeing the same patterns.
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"We're further along in addiction than in depression and schizophrenia, " says David Self, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas Southwestern.
So in 1995 Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, decided to see if the anecdotes were true.
From a scholarly perspective, "boredom is a gold mine, " says Mark Fenske, a neuroscientist and researcher at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
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As a neuroscientist I found this especially surprising, because according to all classic theories of learning when expectations are not met, we alter them.
Ann Kelley, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, the behaviour of rats after the were given sweet, salty and fatty foods.
Nina Azari, a neuroscientist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo who also has a doctorate in theology, has looked at the brains of religious people.
"Basic questions that people have been asking for decades are going to be answered with these approaches, " says Michael Hausser, a neuroscientist at University College London.
"Creativity is doing something differently than you've done before, " says Beau Lotto, a neuroscientist and founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab.
But Prof Partha Mitra, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York state, says we need to be aware of the limitations of the technology in use.
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"We are getting much more sophisticated in developing molecular ways of dealing with the damaging events in stroke, " says Solomon Snyder, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
He later became a neuroscientist, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spending most of his career doing basic research on how the brain's cells form connections during learning.
Far from being harmful, amyloid is "actually a response to injury that the brain secretes to protect itself, like a scar, " argues Mark Smith, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University.
Paul Sanberg, a neuroscientist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and his colleagues, have found that a nicotine patch enhances the ability of haloperidol to suppress the symptoms of Tourette's.
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"We are getting much more sophisticated in developing molecular ways of dealing with the damaging events in stroke, " says Solomon Snyder, a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
Now, Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues have tested this idea by giving extensive hearing tests to grown-ups with a wide range of reading abilities.
Since 2009, the elder Mr. Lee has been fighting a neurological disease that makes it difficult for him to walk, his daughter Lee Wei Ling, a neuroscientist, wrote in Singapore's Sunday Times in 2011.
Justine Meaux, a neuroscientist at the privately held BrightHouse Institute for Thought Sciences in Atlanta, says the medial prefrontal cortex is active when people behold images of things to which they are extremely attached.
"If we could keep people who are still functioning from having any further decline for five years--then they would probably die from something else, " says Todd Golde, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic, in Jacksonville, Fla.
It is plausible that Lancaster's bird sounds would have their claimed effect on crime, says Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist at McGill University, as long as an individual genuinely found that sound pleasing and songbirds were used.
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"People who are more likely to purchase a product show significantly higher memory encoding than those who are less likely, " explains Richard Silberstein, a neuroscientist with the Brain Sciences Institute at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
"One of the fundamental questions that neuroscientists are facing today is how we link the activity of individual neurons to the complex behaviours that we see in whole organisms and whole animals, " said Dr Ben Whalley, a neuroscientist at Reading.
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