When a Woman in a Persistent Vegetative State Was Told

question 81

True/False

 When a woman in a persistent vegetative state was told to imagine playing tennis, an fMRI of her brain showed increased activity in motor areas of her cortex, similar to what healthy volunteers showed.

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