In vista della discussione Twitter dal 23 al 29 gennaio sul tema dell‘odio onlife e dell’hate speech indico qui alcuni brevi testi che mi auguro possano costituire utili spunti di riflessione.
23.1.2023:
Viewing a hated face resulted in increased activity in the medial frontal gyrus, right putamen, bilaterally in premotor cortex, in the frontal pole and bilaterally in the medial insula. We also found three areas where activation correlated linearly with the declared level of hatred, the right insula, right premotor cortex and the right fronto-medial gyrus. One area of deactivation was found in the right superior frontal gyrus. The study thus shows that there is a unique pattern of activity in the brain in the context of hate. Though distinct from the pattern of activity that correlates with romantic love, this pattern nevertheless shares two areas with the latter, namely the putamen and the insula.
Citation: Zeki S, Romaya JP (2008) Neural Correlates of Hate. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3556. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003556
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003556#pone.0003556-Bartels2
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