neurodudes

A fun fMRI result (which should be taken with the usual caveats [PLoS Biology]) showing that Democrats and Republicans might actually like the other side’s candidate but that there are strong emotional responses in the brain that try to surpress this attraction. The tip-off: Anterior cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation when viewing the opposing candidate — both areas are active during mental conflict (and, since this is fMRI, I should note that these areas most likely are active in many other situations, too).

Click here for the entire NYT article.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 at 6:55 pm by Neville Sanjana and is filed under At the scale of systems and functions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.