Historically, the term "portrait" has referred to a painting or photograph highlighting the face and its emotional expression. However, Gertrude Stein wrote literary portraits (including, most famously, her portraits of Picasso and Cezanne); Virgil Thompson composed auditory portraits; Andy Warhol and Elisa Da Prato have created portraits in film; and I argue that an fMRI scan can be thought of as a portrait. I also argue that Dan Lloyd's sonifications of brain activity are aural portraits.

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