Learning who's the top dog: Study reveals how the brain stores information about social rank
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 18:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn ordinary information. The study provides clues as to how this information is stored in memory and also reveals that you can tell a lot about how good somebody is likely to be at judging social rank by looking at the structure of their brain.