And you got to call it science?

A new method may help to overcome some of the difficulties in comparing the human and monkey brains. To test the method, researchers scanned the brains of humans and macaque monkeys while they watched Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

And we do so lovee comparing human brains to monkey brains. If only it weren't so difficult.

They recruited 24 human participants, and used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan their brains as they watched the same film clip. This confirmed that the film clip evoked the same pattern of brain activity in all the participants, as in the 2004 study. They then did the same with four macaque monkeys, each of which was shown the same clip six times, and found that all four animals also exhibited the same activity patterns as each other across multiple viewings. Next, the researchers compared the activity patterns they observed in the human participants with those of the monkeys, focusing on 34 distinct regions the visual cortex. ... As expected, the first set of data obtained using the new method revealed a remarkable degree of similarity between the human and monkey brain. In general, there were very good correspondences between the activity patterns observed in both species, particularly in those brain areas involved in the earliest stages of visual processing. But the researchers also observed some surprising differences in higher order visual cortical areas. Some of those activated at the same time in both species were found to be in different locations, while others in corresponding locations were activated at different times, suggesting that they evolved entirely new functions in humans.

I think this was my favorite line from the article:

"I'm pretty sure the monkeys aren't worrying about plot twists"

How can he know??? He can't know!!!