Motivation in the Brain

I read this article a while ago but I think its so interesting that I go back and read it every so often. A neuroscientist in London named Sophie Scott did a study to see what happens in an actors brain when they're acting rather than just speaking. This article particularly deals with their findings in scanning Fiona Shaw's brain while she was speaking in character. I think this goes along well with what we were saying in class about the way our senses are great tools. In this case it seems to be the sense of sight that was most apparently used in acting. It's really interesting to me that we can link a certain sense, like an image or a smell, to a whole idea and use it to help us in our work. Here's the link to the full article on BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8375000/8375695.stm