Question

A thought-provoking question regarding thought:

Does thought have any physical characteristics?

For example, a chemical makeup or something of the like.

To reword my question, is there any physical way that scientists can see or measure thoughts while they are occurring?

Answer 1

Current research has used TMS to study the brain areas responsible for emotion and cognition and their roles in how people perceive intention and approach moral reasoning (Kalbe et al., 2010; Van den Eynde et al., 2010; Young, Camprodon, Hauser, Pascual-Leone, & Saxe, 2010).Kalbe, E., Schlegel, M., Sack, A. T., Nowak, D. A., Dafotakis, M., Bangard, C.,…Kessler, J. (2010).

Answer 2

http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/beginning-psychology/s07-03-psychologists-study-the-brain-.html