How the brain helps us navigate social differences
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Oct 05 2020 at 4:09 AM GMT
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- Researchers found that, among pairs of people who had very different socioeconomic backgrounds - calculated according to education level and family income - there was a higher level of activity in an area of the frontal lobe called the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
- The area is associated with speech production and rule-based language as well as cognitive and attentional control.
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- Published Oct 5, 2020 4:09 AM GMT