Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Powerful magnets hamper our ability to lie

YOU will tell the truth. Applying a magnetic field to the brain seems to hamper our ability to tell lies.
Lying is thought to involve inhibiting our normal propensity to truth-telling, so Talis Bachmann's team at the University of Tartu in Estonia reasoned that dampening brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) - which is involved in cognitive control - might alter the likelihood of lying.

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