Larger brain keeps larger number of friends

• April 26, 2024

If you have many friends and you love spending most of your time with your company, new studies indicate that it could be because your brain is bigger than usual, publishes the virtual newspaper The Huffington Post.

The scan was scanned brain of 60 volunteers and the theory that the bigger the amygdala (brain area responsible for governing social relationships), the greater the number of friends and family with whom you are in regular contact.

The amygdala It is also responsible for recognizing when a person is an acquaintance, a friend or a stranger, mentions Lisa Feldman Barret , author of the study published by Nature Neuroscience. The study does not clarify whether the amygdala grows by having many friends or if it is because of having a larger than normal tonsil, that many can be maintained social relationships . So Barret mentions that more studies will have to be done.

"The beings humans we are social animals For nature. We play, we work, we eat and we fight with the help of the other. A larger amygdala could allow us to identify, learn and recognize social emotional signals with greater efficiency in order to develop more complex strategies in areas such as cooperation and competition, "concludes the study.