New Paper Pinpoints a Seat of Self-Control in the Brain
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 01:21
in Psychology & Sociology
The ability to delay gratification allows humans to accomplish such goals as saving for retirement, going to the gym regularly and choosing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a new paper, a team of researchers for the first time causally shows that this ability is rooted in a part of the frontal lobe of the brain: the prefrontal cortex.