Saturday, November 10, 2012

Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa: Brain physiology limits simultaneous use of both networks

Read it and weep, but not simultaneously.

New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story -- one that upon a second look offers clues it was false.

When the brain fires up the network of neurons that allows us to empathize, it suppresses the network used for analysis, a pivotal study led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher shows.

Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa: Brain physiology limits simultaneous use of both networks

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