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One person in a vegetative state answered yes/no questions by imagining different types of movement.

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Tue, If that individual is in the FMRI machine. False, if not they cant.


Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) use MR imaging to detect minute variations in blood flow that occur when a specific area of your brain is active.

Patients in a vegetative state have no knowledge of themselves or their surroundings and are unable to engage with others.