Dr Azari was expecting to see activity in the limbic systems of the Christians when they recited the psalm.

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When the individuals heard dissonance, areas of their limbic systems known to be responsible for unpleasant emotion lit up and, moreover, the volunteers used negative adjectives to describe their feelings.

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Often beautiful women or handsome men would be associated with these messages, enhancing the ability of the hippocampus to deeply store memories of the political and commercial messages which plucked the neurological strings of our limbic systems.

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They had the right kind of features according to the fashions of the times and places of the various amygdalae in the various limbic systems in the various brains of the populations to which they were speaking: jutting chins, manly moustaches.

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