A pose by any other name would smell as sweet

We know that the standard diagnostic EEG can be obliterated by artefact (here’s looking at you, chewing), and we must familiarise ourselves with natural distracting rhythms that occur when drowsing, asleep and sedated. A report will comment on the patient’s level of arousal and their cooperativeness, perhaps. How many of our top-notch electrophysiologists comment on the pose and poise of the technologists present? A study predicated on the ‘fact’ that the contrapposto pose in women (that exaggerates the waist to hip ratio) is a more attractive pose, looked at EEG in 58 students as they ogled posing women. Using low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography, they identified the middle temporal gyrus as well as the angular gyrus as the key brain regions …