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These Penn scientists discovered how the brain engages in imagination

Picture yourself winning the lottery. A telltale pattern of brain activity can be seen on an MRI machine.

Joseph Kable (foreground) is a neuroscientist and a professor in the psychology department at Penn. With him is Arthur Lee, a former grad student at Penn and now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He used MRI scans to show that the human brain uses two different "networks" to engage in the act of imagination.
Joseph Kable (foreground) is a neuroscientist and a professor in the psychology department at Penn. With him is Arthur Lee, a former grad student at Penn and now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He used MRI scans to show that the human brain uses two different "networks" to engage in the act of imagination.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer
    by Tom Avril
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