Are You A Social Butterfly? It Can Change Your Brain For Good
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Don’t scold people or call them ‘dumb’ the next time you fail to drag them off the According to
Does it mean these parts of the brain are growing because they have gone into overdrive, ‘trying’ to cope with ‘increased’ social activities? We know it sounds like gym – the more the exercise, the better the muscle power.
But then, it makes sense if you take into account a previous experiment with macaque monkeys. It has been discovered that social-group size causes difference in their brain size and the brain parts connected to face processing and predicting others’ intentions happen to be bigger in animals that are living in large social groups.
So what’s preventing a similar thing from happening to the
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According to LiveScience, the researchers also tested if the size of a person’s
So what’s the bottom line here? Pretty simple, according to Noonan. “If you’re spending a lot of time in social environments using social skills and your brain’s changing, maybe you’re not learning to juggle in your free time or becoming proficient at the piano,” she said. “The brain is just changing and optimising to reflect your needs, and if that is thriving within a complex social environment, that is what your brain is reflecting.”
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