Part of brain that suppresses instinct identified

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 14:30 in Psychology & Sociology

New research is revealing which regions in the brain fire up when we suppress an automatic behavior such as the urge to look at other people in an elevator. Researchers showed -- for the first time -- an increase in signal from the left inferior frontal cortex when study participants were confronted by a conflict between an image and a word superimposed on the image.

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