adminresearchers are claiming.
They found that when magnets were applied to either the right or left side of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, found directly behind your forehead, it made you lie or tell the truth, depending on which side was stimulated. When magnetic interference was directed at another part of the brain, the parietal lobe, the subjects’ decision-making remain unchanged.
“Spontaneous choice to lie more or less can be influenced by brain stimulation,” researchers Inga Karton and Talis Bachmann wrote in Behavioural Brain Research.
The experiment involved giving 16 volunteers disks that varied in colour. Half were then given magnetic stimulation on the right side of their prefrontal cortex, half on the left. They then had two options: to lie about what colour their disks were, or tell the truth.
Remarkably, those stimulated on the left side fibbed a great deal more, those on the right showed much more honesty. Scientists last year found that magnets can also be used to disrupt the brain’s ‘moral compass’. The region, which lies just behind the right ear, becomes more active when we think about other people’s misdemeanours or good works. In an extraordinary experiment, researchers were able to use powerful magnets to disrupt this area of the brain and make people temporarily less moral. – Daily Mail.
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