Research shows that people who prefer to be alone see things differently and have different decision-making or analytical powers than others. On the other hand, loners have less activity in the area of the brain linked to the reward system. It’s not yet known, what happens first: whether isolation or change of activation.
A single individual can be so by choice or others, i. e. someone can say that he feels better if he spends most of his time away from the company of others, or he may not find anyone to spend. their hours with in any case, the brains of singles have a significant influence.
- According to an article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- The region of the brain called?Striatum?there is less activity in single people.
- This area is associated with some daily rewards.
- Such as money and food.
To reach this conclusion, 23 university students were grouped together, who were asked a series of questions to know how isolated they felt socially, at what level they were single, and at what level they enjoyed and sought social contact.
Then their brains were scanned while looking at pictures of happy people, so they found that among those students who did not have an intense social life, the field of? It was dimmer, a sign of less activation.
Because the sample of this study was small and very small in terms of the variety of certain parameters, such as age, dedication and gender, the authors asked in the findings of the research itself that these were interpreted with the caution that determined the error of the study.
The scientists in charge of the experiment worked on the following hypotheses: in a lonely person, less dependent on society, the rewards associated with this context do not arouse enthusiasm.
Not enough research has yet been done to have well-defined brain characteristics of those who prefer loneliness, however, although literature in this area is not abundant, curious results have already been discovered.
For example, it has already been shown that there is a close relationship between introversion, creativity and originality. In turn, it is surprising that the loners have greater satisfaction in getting results from their “mental efforts”.
According to Amanda Guyer, a psychologist at the Maryland National Institute of Health, socially remote people are more sensitive to sensory and emotional interactions, meaning that what happens in this context of interaction affects them most.
To come to this theory, the researcher designed a study with two groups of children, some reserved and some did not, all had to participate in a game in which at the touch of a button they made money, the retracted women had up to three times more brain activity?Region?
One of the situations that the loners have to go through is being in the middle of a meeting, party or event that involves being close to other people; In these situations, certain areas of the brain significantly increase blood flow through a kind of this could be one of the reasons shy people don’t like to socialize.
However, not all of this is bad news. Research suggests that an introverted person’s brain has the ability to adapt to various experiences thanks to its extra sensitivity, so, for example, it can react more quickly to moments of high social demand, such as certain emergencies.
Finally, it is worth saying that the shy are good to perceive the subtleties or details that others ignore, so they are usually good writers, painters or witnesses, because their brain is capable of it. In fact, genius, in addition to being associated with a certain degree of madness, is associated with loneliness.