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...study, conducted at Yale University, suggests that racial bias can be found in the amygdala, a region of the brain involved in emotional response, before it is censored by the frontal cortex and the conscious brain...
...study originated out of an earlier project where we didn’t find amygdala activation in comparisons of black faces and white faces,” said William A. Cunningham, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and an author of this project. “We figured that what was happening was that the subjects had an automatic response but were then trying to control...
While these images were viewed, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity. The researchers paid special attention to activation of the amygdala and the fusiform gyrus, the region of the brain known to be involved in processing human faces...
...consciously unprejudiced, experienced greater activation in these regions when shown black faces subliminally than white faces. In contrast, when the images were displayed for 525 milliseconds, the frontal cortex—the area of the brain that deals with inhibition and control—experienced greater activation and the amygdala experienced less activation than in the subliminal condition...
...cocaine causes the amygdala to change in shape, it means that we have a mandate to get it off the street,” said Breiter. “If this is purely genetic, then we should develop better medical diagnosis and prevention skills—we can determine who is at risk...