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Disbelief linked to taste, pain
Disbelief triggered increased activity in the anterior insula, a brain region involved in taste, pain and disgust.

"Our results appear to make sense of the emotional tone of disbelief, placing it on a continuum with other modes of stimulus appraisal and rejection," the study authors wrote.

Uncertainty prompted increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and decreased activity in the caudate, a region in the basal ganglia, which is involved in motor action. Belief and disbelief both boosted activity in the caudate.

The findings suggest that it may one day be possible to use brain scans to reliably detect belief, disbelief and uncertainty in people.

"This would have obvious implications for the detection of deception, for the control of a placebo effect during the process of drug design, and for the study of any higher cognitive phenomenon in which the differences between belief, disbelief and uncertainty might be a relevant variable," the researchers concluded. - (HealthDay News)

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