Tuesday, September 16, 2008

No more poli sci; just give me an MRI

From USA Today:

"I think it is damn interesting that moral beliefs, for example, of one kind vs. another, reliably and reproducibly activate certain brain regions. Don't you?" says Gazzaniga, author of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique. "In the big picture, we are moving toward a brain-based theory of why we believe the things we do as humans."

Read the whole thing here.