| sapphi_snake said: Got a link? Is it legal to scan the article? |
I'll just transcribe it, that's probably easier, it's only short.
"Your political leanings are visible in your brain and can be read by a scanner, new research shows. It appears that liberal and conservativeviews reside in two distinct areas of the brain. Proffesor Geriant Rees, of University college London, and Dr Ryota Kanai placed 90 yound adults in an magnetic resonance imaging scanner to measure blood flow in different parts of their brains. The subjects had previously rated their political leanings on a scalebetween 'very conservative' and 'very liberal'.
The volunteers with more liberal views tended to have more brain matter in ther anterior cinglate cortex - a region strongly linked with decision making and judgment of conflicting information. The conservative-leaning subjects tended to have a larger amygdala, the area connected with emotional processing.
Professor Rees went on to scan the brains of two poliicians as part of teh research commisioned for BBC radio four's today programme. The results for conservative MP Alan duncan and Labour MP Stephen Pound corresponded precisely with the study group"
