One Brain Area Processes Time, Space and Social Relationships

There are words of common distance in time, space, and social relations. We will talk about distant places, close friends, distant past. According to the January issue of Journal of Neuroscience, probably this is because all three have a common pattern of brain activity.

Psychologists at Dartmouth University analyze 15 brains using functional MRI scans to see photos of household items taken at short or long distances. Pictures of friends and acquaintances. Read phrases such as "in a few seconds" or "after one year from now". The activity pattern of the parietal lobe of the lower right (area considered to handle distance information) strongly predicts whether participants will consider short range and long distance in all categories. It is the same in the brain. Researchers have suggested that higher brain functions are more organized mainly in areas such as time and social relations close to probability such as areas such as time and social relations.

Structural changes do not occur simultaneously throughout the brain. Indeed, the brain areas involved in basic sensory processing and exercise develop faster than the brain areas, including more complicated processes such as suppressing inappropriate behavior, future planning, understanding others. These and other complicated processes depend on the areas of the prefrontal cortex, temporal cortex and parietal cortex that continue to change the structure during the second decade.

In fact, the design of the space had a great influence on our behavior and emotions. In order to deepen this field there is a science field called "neural structure" that studies the relationship between the process of the brain and the constructed environment and the influence it has on the mood and health of people. It explores how people's environment can act as a trigger for hormones to promote happiness and peace, or to increase stress and anxiety. "As a neuroscientist, the brain is an organ that controls behavior, I believe that genes control blueprints, but the environment can control gene function and ultimately control brain structure .

Neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman wrote a social social relationship and a wonderful book about the brain. In a series of attractive fMRI experiments, Lieberman discovered that the same brain structure involved in the treatment of body pain also addresses social exclusion pain. Incredibly, he said that commercial analgesics (such as Tylenol) would reduce the sense of social pain, as measured by participant subjective reporting and objective measurement of brain activity I discovered.