Praise or Cash?

This article talks about how your brain reacts in the same way when you get money, or when someone gives you a compliment.
The study was made by a japaneese doctor and his group of scientists. They gave 19 healthy people cards, telling them that if they won they were going to get cash, and later they gave other people a compliment, and their brains reacted in the same way. For example, "Musicians' brains light up the same way whether rewarded by a crowd's applause or money. It's all part of wanting to belong, new research suggests " This was proved because they used a brain imaging technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI.
With both of them, triggered activity in a reward-related area of the brain.
This is something really important, because it helps to find out the social behavior of people such as altruism, saying that "the need to belong is essential for humans".

I really liked this article because I never imagined that something like this could be tested. Even though I think the results were kind of predictable because of the time that we are living on. People care a lot of how people treat them, and also about money, I think those things are some of the ones that people care a lot of, even though there are a lot of other things that are more important than that.
But it is really interesting knowing about how the reactions on human beings can be showed and tested, to see how our brain works, and that with technology we are going to be able to know a lot of things that we could never imagine we were able to know about.