Can love change your mind? New project explores neuroscience of 'positive qualities'

Wearing a 128-channel geodesic sensor net, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard sits in a soundproof room and talks with Richard Davidson (right) before participating in an electroencephalography (EEG) test at the EEG facility at the Waisman Center in June. Davidson, director of the Waisman Lab for Brain Imaging and Behavior, recently received a grant to create a new research initiative on the neuroscience of compassion, love and forgiveness, where he will investigate how those virtues work in the human mind. Photo: Jeff Miller