The Cingular Theory of Unification explained. Two neuroscience graduate students predict the future. Beware dire message contained within. What side are you on my friend?
The Cingular Theory of Unification explained. Two neuroscience graduate students predict the future. Beware dire message contained within. What side are you on my friend?
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that bit about liberals was complete b f'n s. when ever someone is reacting subconsciously, and liberals are more than adept at that! the acc is not active. any political leaning can become subconscious, especially on certain topics. I have seen more than a good share of amygdaloid and shrill liberals over the past few months, with nothing in the way of 'harder thing' effort on their part..
frontal polar cortex (broadman's 10 & 11) are acc like too.
If you ask someone with a certain bent, be it left or right, a 'hot button' question likely to elicit a strong amygdala reaction, then acc is only going to get active if the person has a need to mitigate or modify first impulse. Brain regions dont have politcal loyalties, large networks of consciousness do. Its easy to get an amyg. w/out acc response; ask a liberal a question about 'corporate greed' or ask a conservative about late term abortion!
That falls in line with the error detection and behavioral inhibition type theories of ACC function. Anyway, the point of our presentation is that we are in an age of glorified mapping or, to be blunt, "neophrenology." Whether something happens in the amygdala or ACC or PFC, how much does that really tell us? I work in systems e.phys. and we suffer from the same problem; I am not only poking fun at fMRI work. Mapping is fine and good, but let's recognize it for what it is.
Fearful of having to retract this work, I plugged the PFC into our analysis software. Though the PFC does currently have more citations than the cingulate, our model predicts that the the cingulate will overtake the PFC within ten years. I can send you the spreadsheet if you like.
Also, the prefrontal cortex is typically considered any neocortex that lies anterior to the precentral gyrus (motor cortex), so, the anterior cingulate is actually part of the PFC! We are still not safe.
To disprove your theory I got in my "way-back" machine, dialed 1962 and visited Walter Freeman. I showed him your prediction and he agreed to change history by doing strategic lobotomies that would eventually even out the chart curves. Expect results next year. Everything will be just fine...
Don't be fearful - the PFC and its subregions will dominate as research moves us away from the general mammalian structures to those that most probably are engaged by higher cognitive functions and IQ - I thought you presentation was excellent by the way.
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that bit about liberals was complete b f'n s. when ever someone is reacting subconsciously, and liberals are more than adept at that! the acc is not active. any political leaning can become subconscious, especially on certain topics. I have seen more than a good share of amygdaloid and shrill liberals over the past few months, with nothing in the way of 'harder thing' effort on their part..
frontal polar cortex (broadman's 10 & 11) are acc like too.
If you ask someone with a certain bent, be it left or right, a 'hot button' question likely to elicit a strong amygdala reaction, then acc is only going to get active if the person has a need to mitigate or modify first impulse. Brain regions dont have politcal loyalties, large networks of consciousness do. Its easy to get an amyg. w/out acc response; ask a liberal a question about 'corporate greed' or ask a conservative about late term abortion!
Also, the prefrontal cortex is typically considered any neocortex that lies anterior to the precentral gyrus (motor cortex), so, the anterior cingulate is actually part of the PFC! We are still not safe.