Parts Of Brain Correspond To Facebook Friend Lists
A scientific study has found that people with lengthy or complex friend lists on Facebook have correspondingly larger amygdalas in the brains, along with noticeable differences in parts of the cerebral cortex.
People with large or complicated lists of friends have correspondingly larger amygdalas within their brains, according to a scientific study.
This study, “Amygdala volume and social network size in humans,” appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Kevin C. Bickart of Boston University School of Medicine’s department of anatomy and neurobiology and a team of researchers compared the size of different regions of the brain with the corresponding individuals’ social networks.
One part of the brain that the scientists studied, the hippocampus, didn’t show any correlation with the use of social networks.
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