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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."

7 of 364 comments (clear)

  1. i'm telling the truth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second post

  2. No lie by Infinityis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is the first post. I am not lying, I promise. Proof: I've never been known to work that hard. I never RTFA, just the blurb.

  3. In Korea by martyn+s · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Korea lying is only for old people!

    1. Re:In Korea by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      in korea, soviet russia is only for old people!

    2. Re:In Korea by Bloodlent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Me and this guy are the only ones who care that the "In Japan" in-joke was stillborn :(

    3. Re:In Korea by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Holy shit, I didn't think anybody would pick up on that! Good jorb mr... whoever.

  4. Obligatory Korea Joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Korea, only old people's brain's work harder.

    Oh yeah, this one's gunna go the distance.