Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder

Posted by timothy on Monday November 29, 2004 @07:33PM 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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Re:Laying by eclectro · 2004-11-29 20:16 · Score: 0, Troll

In other news, 'laying' discovered to have the same effect.

Thankfully, slashdotters do not need to worry about getting laid, thus freeing up countless brain cells to develope important open source projects.

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Alternate punchline by quintessent · 2004-11-30 01:32 · Score: 0, Troll

Doctor: Norma, I thought I told you to hook up the... reader.

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