The more you manipulate me, the less i'm able to be manipulated. So as long as you can vary it, right and change it up a bit, you'll keep being activated by the, by the emotion. The pre frontal cortex does what for us specific lans an means my favorite part of the brain. A humans have the largest pre frontal cortex compared to the rest of the brain, thand other animals. But if you think of it like a whale, objectively, it has a larger pre frontal cortex than a human. It's where science meets arts in another way.
What does your brain do when watching movies? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the field of neurocinematics and the difference between fiction and reality with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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