Brain scans

	Compliments and Money Give the Same Satisfaction
...em according to the answers participants had given in the questionnaires and from the videos. The researchers monitored the brain activity when a person received a compliment or a cash reward. The brain scans showed that both psychological and money reward activated the same area in the brain. The results of the study may explain some peculiarities of social behavior like altruism and proves that social reward is e...
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	Inborn Empathy - In Other's Shoes Completely
...on has a mix of sensations at a time, like seeing sounds or hearing colors. Such condition is found in one out of 23 people. The recently studied mirror synesthesia was examined with the help of brain scans, registering an activation in certain areas of the brain and tactile response when participants saw the other person being touched. Experts also performed a test, when the person with mirror synesthesia was tou...
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	Bad Memories Can Be Suppressed If Only You Really Want It
...s or car incident. While the pictures were shown, the participants were given a task either to keep in mind the image with the face expressing one of the emotions or not. During the learning process, brain scans of the volunteers showed that two regions of prefrontal cortex were working to block brain areas that are responsible for visual memorizing, memory encoding and emotional response. Scientists say that these f...
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	A Man's Satisfaction Lies in Earning More than His Pals
...e brain is a region that gives feelings of pleasure in response to such experiences as eating good food, achieving a goal, having sex, or when a favorite team wins a game. The latest researches used brain scans to show that the "reward center" is stimulated when a man gets paid for performing a given task. The research also showed that in men this fact depended very much on how much he was paid. The study consisted in s...
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