Willard Mitt Munchausen Romney - Mitt has developed his inner Munchausen Area of the Brain with lots of Axons and White Matter in the Prefrontal Cortex. - Chimpanzees exhibiting more frequent tactical deception and lies possess larger neocortices (Byrne, 2003)

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The Lying Brain of Mitt Romney :

Liars have reduced prefrontal grey matter and diminished autonomic responsiveness (Raine et al, 2000).  Obtained from reliable blinded measurement of prefrontal white matter by magnetic resonance imaging.

The British Journal of Psychology
Prefrontal white matter – the tissue of lies?
By SEAN A. SPENCE, MD, MRCPsych
March 7, 2005


Prefrontal white matter – the tissue of lies?


Some excerpts :

Deception itself resembles an executive task. It elicits greater activation of the prefrontal regions (compared with telling the truth) and also incurs a processing cost, manifest in longer response times (for review see Spence et al, 2004). That humans utilise greater cognitive resource while lying (cf. telling the truth) also seems congruent with emerging primate studies suggesting that non-human primate species exhibiting more frequent tactical deception possess larger neocortices (Byrne, 2003). Hence, deception may constitute a weapon in the evolutionary biological arms race, supported by ‘higher’ brain regions.

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Yang et al’s findings imply that excess prefrontal white matter confers some ‘capacity’ for deception, akin to an advantage. King & Ford (1988) reached similar conclusions when they found that those with pseudologia fantastica might exhibit superior verbal abilities (despite increased prevalence of neurological abnormality). Such conclusions evoke the stereotypic image of the liar as one who is ‘smooth-tongued’ and Machiavellian.

Thus, a straightforward interpretation of Yang et al’s study would conclude that increased prefrontal white matter confers a ‘ predisposition’ to lying, which itself confers a competitive edge in day-to-day life.

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