Losing big in Vegas and looking for something to blame?
Your scapegoat may be the insular cortex or prefrontal lobe
Neuroscientists in Cambridge, United Kingdom, studied patients with brain pathology, which robbed them of judgment. They determined that judgment control centers of the brain are partially located in the prefrontal lobe and the insular cortex.
The researchers recruited 45 volunteers with brain damage due to surgery, trauma or stroke (and another 45 peop…
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