Sunday, October 23, 2011

Enlightenment

Our Facebook Friends, Our Brains of the Day: Having lots of Facebook friends finally means something: A study published today in the biological sciences journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests a link between Facebook friends and brain size.

University College London researchers found that people with a larger number of Facebook friend had a larger amount of “grey matter” in the amygdala, the right superior temporal sulcus, the left middle temporal gyrus, and the right entorhinal cortex — areas that regulate memory, emotional responses and social interactions.

The study was unable to determine whether the number of Facebook friends a person had necessarily made their brains smaller or larger, or whether those with pronounced regions were simply more gregarious by nature.

“The exciting question now is whether these structures change over time,” said researcher Ryota Kanai. “This will help us answer the question of whether the Internet is changing our brains.”
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http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg

You shall be enlightened.

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