Electromagnetic Pulse Can Be Used To Disrupt Morality In The Human Brain
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Electromagnetic
Pulse Can Be Used To Disrupt Morality In The
Human Brain
The ability to evaluate other people's actions
as right or wrong can be disrupted with an
electromagnetic pulse to the brain, according
to a study conducted by researchers from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. "You
think of morality as being a really high-level
behavior," lead researcher Dr Liane Young
said. "To be able to apply a magnetic
field to a specific brain region and change
people's moral judgments is really
astonishing." Researchers had 20
volunteers listen to several scenarios, then
assess the ethics of the people involved. In
one experiment, some of the participants
received a 25-minute burst of transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the nerve
cluster known as the right temporo-parietal
junction (RTPJ) before hearing the stories. In
another experiment, some participants received
the TMS burst for only 500 milliseconds after
the stories, while being asked to make a
judgment.