TMS (causal, human, coarse)

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Doctor holds a coil above your head
Magnetic pulses through your skull instead
Of cutting brain tissue like before
We zap the cortex through an open door
No surgery needed, just a gentle hum
Creating virtual lesions, here they come
Transcranial stimulation, that's the name
Disrupting neurons in this research game

[Chorus]
TMS shows us causal links so clear
When motion vanishes, hMT's the gear
V1 gets zapped, phosphenes appear
Chronometry tells us when circuits steer
Transient disruption, then it's gone
Causal necessity, the proof lives on

[Verse 2]
Point the coil at visual area one
Flickering lights dance, the show's begun
Phosphenes sparkle in your visual field
Masking stimuli that once were revealed
Time the pulses just before you see
We'll map the moment when V1 runs free
Surface cortex only, can't go deep
Centimeter patches, that's what we reap

[Chorus]
TMS shows us causal links so clear
When motion vanishes, hMT's the gear
V1 gets zapped, phosphenes appear
Chronometry tells us when circuits steer
Transient disruption, then it's gone
Causal necessity, the proof lives on

[Verse 3]
Target hMT plus, watch motion die
Moving dots stand still before your eye
The waterfall effect just disappears
Proving what we've suspected all these years
This patch of cortex makes the world flow
Without it working, motion doesn't show
Human subjects, healthy and intact
Virtual lesions prove the causal fact

[Bridge]
Correlation whispers, causation shouts
TMS removes all reasonable doubts
Spatially coarse but temporally tight
Millisecond timing gets the sequence right
Ethics smile because it's not for keeps
Reversible lesions while the subject sleeps

[Verse 4]
Single pulses or a rapid train
Either way we interrupt the brain
Double dissociation is the goal
Each region playing its specific role
BOLD signals tell us correlation
TMS brings causal demonstration
From the scanner to the magnet chair
We build the map of what happens where

[Chorus]
TMS shows us causal links so clear
When motion vanishes, hMT's the gear
V1 gets zapped, phosphenes appear
Chronometry tells us when circuits steer
Transient disruption, then it's gone
Causal necessity, the proof lives on

[Outro]
Magnetic coil above the visual brain
Proving causation without lasting pain
From correlation to the causal truth
TMS provides the scientific proof

[Final Chorus]
TMS shows us causal links so clear
When motion vanishes, hMT's the gear
V1 gets zapped, phosphenes appear
Chronometry tells us when circuits steer
Transient disruption, then it's gone
Causal necessity, the proof lives on

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