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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

A close-up look at Russell Poldrack's MRI scan of his brain. Photo by Alexander Wang.

Quantified Self

November 1, 2013 by Daniel Oppenheimer

Neuroscientist embarks on a yearlong quest to study a single human brain, his own Every Tuesday morning through November 2013, neuroscientist Russell Poldrack woke up, took off his headband-like sleep monitor and told it to wirelessly send data about his night’s sleep to a database. Then he’d log in to a survey app on his […]

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