Love at first sight does not exist

• April 25, 2024

A series of studies have focused on analyzing images of the brain during romantic moments to prove or disprove the common belief that we can we fell in love in less than a second .

The images were obtained through magnetic resonances made to the brain , which is a type of gray matter scanner, to determine the reaction in the blood flow that reaches the brain and measure its activity before the stimulus when seeing an image of the loved one, listening to his voice or imagining having some kind of experience that you have shared with her or him.

Psychiatrists at the University Hospital of Geneva, in Switzerland, found that the brain of the person claiming to be in love shows activity in the pleasure centers and the reward system that are involved in producing euphoria as in the consumption of drugs. Just as the brain showed a kind of deactivation of the areas involved in emotions such as anxiety, fear and pain.

But one of the surprises found is not in the well-known data where we know that love triggers activity in the ways where the drug usually resorts, but it could be the opposite. The drug could ignite the "love centers" of the brain, and this would be the reason why people consume drugs in the first instance, publishes the medical portal of TIME magazine.

Another discovery indicates that the legend about love at first sight occurs in less than a second, although it may have been nothing more than a misinterpretation. The neurotransmitters Associated with the "love" brain pathways could flow to the brain in a fifth of a second based on only visual cues, even before the rest of the brain manages to recognize the face.

The areas responsible for coordinating the cognitive processes that make you recognize your beloved are much slower than the areas that react to a visual stimulus. That is why the love at first sight it is not entirely true, since areas of high cognitive order must make a subsequent recognition to identify the emotions related to "the object of affection" and return the information to the visual area.

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