But in June, Carnegie Mellon University researchers reported they had identified, for the first time,
unique brain activity patterns for nine specific emotions and could correctly guess which one a person was feeling — essentially reading the mind.
Not exact matches
As he takes more scans, he hopes to find
patterns of
brain activity that are
unique to each group.
Interestingly, these neural -
activity patterns appeared somewhat distinct from those that usually appear when
brain - scan subjects complete tasks associated with emotions like empathy or thinking about other peopleâ $ ™ s points of view, which is consistent with the idea that gratitude is a
unique emotion.