People who like communication have bigger brains

New research by British scientists shows that people who like to communicate or have good social skills and many friends often have a larger brain structure.

Neuroscientists at Oxford University say open-minded people, who like to communicate a lot, show that by having more friends, the size of some brain regions will be larger and better connected than the others.

According to Live Science, to clarify the difference in brain size in humans, scientists conducted research on the image of the brain structure of 18 adults. The research team determined the number and extent of social relations of these 18 people with questions related to their social interaction within the previous month, then combined the study of scanned images. brain to check brain activity.

People who like to communicate and have more friends will have larger areas of brain.(Artwork: Stockxpert)

In humans, brain regions such as the apical region, the cortical region of the hippocampus belt and the prefrontal cortex, carry different signals and perform functions, but when synchronized, they are connect and operate more effectively.

The team found that the size of social relationships, expressed in the number of friends of a person, is related to changes in the white matter , or nerve fibers connecting regions. Different brains. In people with more friends, white sugar in the brain is better connected.

Previous research with macaque monkeys indicated that, in monkeys living in large communities, brain regions involved in the task of processing face images and predicting the actions of other animals, have Larger sizes than monkeys only live in small groups.

In the case of monkeys, researchers say the scale of relationships in the monkey community is the factor that makes the difference in their brains. According to the group's hypothesis, this process can be similar in the human brain. However, to prove this, they will conduct further research in the future.