Thursday, December 30, 2010

Spot The Spin

From some neurological research into brain structure and political leanings:

Scans of 90 students' brains at University College London (UCL) uncovered a "strong correlation" between the thickness of two particular areas of grey matter and an individual's views.
Self-proclaimed right-wingers had a more pronounced amygdala - a primitive part of the brain associated with emotion while their political opponents from the opposite end of the spectrum had thicker anterior cingulates.
See what they did there?

4 comments:

Mr Eugenides said...

Today's Independent were even less subtle in their headline:

Right-wing brains 'different'

See what they did there?

The Young Oligarch said...

According to Wikipedia the anterior cingulates are responsible for Pavlovian conditioning .

They didn't mention that , either .

TDK said...

Presumably they showed that amygdala tends to grow with age while the anterior cingulates get thinner

JuliaM said...

The next step - a 'cure'?