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The brains of conservatives and liberals function in fundamentally different ways—with liberals more capable of accepting ambiguity and conflict, and conservative better able to pursue a single-minded course. That's the conclusion of a new study on the neurobiology of politics, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
The experiment, based on how well subjects recognized two letters on a computer screen, tracked activity in part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual response—pressing a key for the most frequently flashed letter—and a considered response—recognizing when not to press a key. Results show "there are two cognitive styles -- a liberal style and a conservative style," said one neurologist.
