Most of Pickens' brain activity during the living-nonliving test was on the left side of his frontalcortex, exactly where young brains would handle the job.
The results suggest that these emotions are handled in the medial prefrontal cortex (the middle of the front of the frontal lobe), the left posterior superior temporal sulcus (one of the furrows towards the side of the brain) and the visual cortex (towards the back of the brain).