According to his scans, the area of their brains that lit up most was the precuneus. This is a little part of the superior parietal lobe, which also happens to be right on the line between the right and left brain hemispheres.
The precuneus plays a role in episodic memory and visual-spatial processing. But most interesting of all, it plays a role in consciousness.
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