You are designing a brain imaging study to investigate language processing in the brain. You decide to have your subjects listen to human speech and then compare their brain response to two other conditions: 1) listening to orchestral music, and 2) silence. Which of the following is likely true about your study?
A) You use a subtractive method to compare brain responses in the speech, music, and silence conditions
B) You will not be able to control what your subjects are thinking about in the silence condition
C) It may be difficult to interpret differences between the silence and the music conditions
D) All of the above

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The study uses a subtractive method to compare conditions, controlling thoughts in silence is challenging, and interpreting differences between silence and music can be complex.

You Are Designing a Brain Imaging Study to Investigate Language