Who’s the most powerful person in the room? Some brains are equipped to figure it out better than others. | Health, Medical, and Science Updates
Who’s the most powerful person in the room? Some brains are equipped to figure it out better than others. | Health, Medical, and Science Updates: "They also found that those who were better at learning the social hierarchy had an increased volume of grey matter in the amygdala compared with those less able.
Dr Dharshan Kumaran at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, who led the study, explains: “These findings are telling us that the amygdala is specifically involved in learning information about social rank based on experience and suggest that separate neural circuits are involved than for learning hierarchy information of a non-social nature."
Dr Dharshan Kumaran at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, who led the study, explains: “These findings are telling us that the amygdala is specifically involved in learning information about social rank based on experience and suggest that separate neural circuits are involved than for learning hierarchy information of a non-social nature."
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