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Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder

Posted by timothy on from the what-if-you're-just-thinking-about-lying dept.

Ant writes "This Wired News article says it seems to take more brain effort to tell a lie than to tell the truth according to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. Lying caused activity in the frontal part of the brain -- the medial inferior and pre-central areas, as well as the hippocampus and middle temporal regions and the limbic areas. Some of these are involved in emotional responses. During a truthful response, the fMRI showed activation of parts of the brain's frontal lobe, temporal lobe and cingulate gyrus."

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  1. Bush's Brain by mynickwastaken · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This means that Bush is not stupid... His brain just works a lot. No time for thinking. Only lies.

  2. Re:There are some brains in US reachin the abs. ma by tequila26er · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    According to media reports, brains of Pastor/Brother George Bush and some of his engineers are reaching the absolute infinity temperature

    I read the above and thought that I might like to see the results of Bush talking (lying) about the reason why the USA is in Iraq and then I realized it would never work. From what I understand of this process, there needs to be a brain in the subject's skull before you can get any results.