EMPATHY VS. ANALYTICAL ABILITY- NATURE'S ROLE

EMPATHY VS. ANALYTICAL ABILITY- NATURE'S ROLE

Empathising with people can diminish your brain's analysing ability, according to a pivotal study. When the brain fires up the network of neurons that allows us to empathise, it suppresses the network used for analysis, found a new study led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher. Humans have a  built in nerral constraints their ability to be both empathic and analytic at the same time. Researchers found that when at rest, our brains cycle between the social and analytical networks. But when presented with a task, healthy adults engage the appropriate neural pathway. 

1 nov. 2012