In the spring of 1999, I volunteered to participate in a brain scan study at Georgia State University. The actual scan was done at the hospital at Emory University. The researchers were running tests to identify linguistic nodes in the brain. While the scan was running I had to identify streams of letters that were not words, but if pronounced would sound like a word. For example, PHORD got a 'yes' response (it sounds like FORD). Sound easy? Try taking the test when they're flashing a word a second and you're in a machine that sounds like a jet engine. To top it off they keep the room at about 15 degrees so the equipment doesn't overheat, which means that you're under 25 pounds of blankets (frozen body parts don't respond well to an MRI). Oh well, at least I've got a picture of my brain. Now I have proof.
I made the image from a composite of 19 separate images. The red indicates areas of activity - apparently these are linguistic nodes. In the image my head is face down, although I was face up during the test. If my brain were bigger I'd be able to figure out how to flip the picture around...