Find out the area of ​​the brain that shows generosity in people

Generosity is not simply a personality formed by the environment and education that is already available in the brain when we are born. Recently, scientists have found the brain region to take on human generosity. Accordingly, those who are easy to sympathize with others are more active in the key brain region.

Scientists discovered a small brain region known as the prefrontal cortex in the center of the brain. The brain region plays an important role in people with depression. In people with this brain area completely normal, when they show sympathy, it will flash. Research on it can help science to comprehend the inner mystery of people, such as psychopaths or antisocial behavior.

Research work is conducted by the way scientists choose participants and ask them to do some work. By scanning the brain when volunteers conduct tasks, scientists from Oxford University and the University of England have located the brain region related to generosity and ability to learn. They focus on pre-social behaviors. These are activities that benefit others and are considered extremely important in the way people interact with people and social relationships.

Brain region sgACC (blue) shows generosity.(Photo: Lockwood).

"Now, science knows very little about why and how people help people," said Dr. Patricia Lockwood, a psychologist, neuroscientist at Oxford, and a standing person. early this study said. Psychologists believe that pre-social behaviors are different for each person, but sympathy is the most convincing main factor. If someone can empathize and imagine that they are in extreme situations that others are suffering from, they tend to show more generosity and other pre-social behaviors.

In the experiments, the team recruited 31 people with an average age of 23 years. These people are required to use computers to do things that might reinforce their ability to learn. In the exercise, participants must learn how to create symbols that can help them easily receive rewards. Before each experiment, participants were asked whether they played for themselves, for others or not for anyone?

Through exercises, participants were asked to use magnetic resonators and their brains were closely monitored. This magnetic resonator is used to measure the area of ​​the brain that performs many activities based on the increased pressure of blood circulation. The results show that those who set out to learn to benefit others learn faster than those who only think for themselves. In addition to showing the level of learning, magnetic resonance imaging also shows a region of the brain that is active in people who learn for others.

The team thinks that the brain region that has been tested is responsible for the generous, generous personality of humans. That area is called the prefrontal cortex (sgACC) located in the central part of the brain. But the level of activity is not the same in all volunteers participating in the experiment. Whether this area of ​​the brain works more or less involves the participants themselves describing themselves as easy to empathize with. Through research, the scientists concluded that people with high sympathy are also active at SGACC, and the ability to learn things that benefit the community is also faster.

The level of activity at sgACC is related to the ability of sympathy in humans.(Photo: Lockwood).

" The prefrontal cortex seems to be especially used to benefit others, " said Dr. Lockwood. On MailOnline she also said: "For the first time we have shown, people are generous, easy to understand, learning to help others is easier than those with less sympathy. And The brains of people who are easily sympathetic also have completely different feedbacks when doing things that benefit the community. "

"Through experiments, we know what the brain does and when we decide to sacrifice for others and the differences in this activity for each individual. By these understandings, we interpret. there are differences in pathological conditions in people with antisocial behavior, not paying attention to the community ".

Talking about the next step of the research activity, Dr. Lockwood said: "We hope to understand more how the prefrontal cortex frontal response in people with poor sympathy and those with Social behavior disorder In a long-term plan, this can lead to groundbreaking studies, studies that change the way people learn pre-social behaviors in people by stimulating them. This brain region is made with drugs or technology ".