Why Do We Feel MIND-BLOWN?
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Repeat after me: “vitur” In Icelandic, when someone is very wise, you say that person is “vitur”. It means they have a lot of “vit” or sense. And the opposite of that, when someone isn’t wise at all, they’re “vitleysingur”. It means that person doesn’t have any “vit”, essentially witless. Or “vit”-less. A recent study found that learning new words activates the same brain region that’s active when you do pleasurable activities, like eating cake or seeing your favourite band perform. I hope you found “vitleysingur” mind-blowing. In this study, researchers gave participants two tasks: one was learning new words and the other was a gambling task. fMRI scans showed that the ventral straitum, a key area involved in reward and ...
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Repeat after me: “vitur” In Icelandic, when someone is very wise, you say that person is “vitur”. It means they have a lot of “vit” or sense. And the opposite of that, when someone isn’t wise at all, they’re “vitleysingur”. It means that person doesn’t have any “vit”, essentially witless. Or “vit”-less. A recent study found that learning new words activates the same brain region that’s active when you do pleasurable activities, like eating cake or seeing your favourite band perform. I hope you found “vitleysingur” mind-blowing. In this study, researchers gave participants two tasks: one was learning new words and the other was a gambling task. fMRI scans showed that the ventral straitum, a key area involved in reward and ...
