Without our pre frontal cortex, there would be no society. There is a direct correlation between e relative size of the prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain and the scale of the society. The larger the societies you know that work, the larger the prefrontal cortex. And as you go down with the great apes and anotherther species, the sizes of their society directly correlate to the size of their prefrontal cortex.
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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