Posts Tagged ‘brain scans for marketing’

Marketers Can (Literally) Read Your Mind

Posted in Advertising Related on March 9th, 2010 by liz – Be the first to comment

The fantasies of 50s sci-fi are coming true! I’m wearing a lead helmet from now on.

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Brain thinking of Cheetos. Mmmm.

DUKE (US)—A new generation of marketing experts may be able to test a product’s appeal while it is still being designed using advanced techniques to see the human brain in action.

So-called “neuromarketing” takes the tools of modern brain science, like the functional MRI, and applies them to the somewhat abstract likes and dislikes of customer decision-making.

[Read more here.]