Social butterflies boosting of a multitude of friends on Facebook may be flattered in case they believe what this tidbit suggests. In an interesting study by experts from the University College London, a direct correlation between number of Facebook friends and size of specific areas of the brain has been disclosed.
However, the relationship is not causal, the team says. It cannot be affirmed if larger brain portions could be attributed to many friends on Facebook. The report also states that more friends a person has on Facebook, greater could be the number of friends in reality.The study involved analysis of 125 university students who were actively engaged in Facebook. A comparison was drawn between a person’s online friends and real world friends. The investigators found that more number of friends a person had on Facebook, the higher appeared to be the proportion of grey matter in the brain.
The regions of the brain that showed the effect were namely the right superior temporal sulcus , the left middle temporal gyrus ,the right entorhinal cortex and the amygdala that had a link with web networks and not real-world groups. These locations of the brain are associated with processing, memory and emotional responses.
However, the relationship is not causal, the team says. It cannot be affirmed if larger brain portions could be attributed to many friends on Facebook. The report also states that more friends a person has on Facebook, greater could be the number of friends in reality.The study involved analysis of 125 university students who were actively engaged in Facebook. A comparison was drawn between a person’s online friends and real world friends. The investigators found that more number of friends a person had on Facebook, the higher appeared to be the proportion of grey matter in the brain.
The regions of the brain that showed the effect were namely the right superior temporal sulcus , the left middle temporal gyrus ,the right entorhinal cortex and the amygdala that had a link with web networks and not real-world groups. These locations of the brain are associated with processing, memory and emotional responses.
The analysis is published in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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