Do you procrastinate all the time? Science can now tell you why

The deadline is approaching. slowly, quietly. So there are only a few hours left before performing this task. Fill out your tax return, unpack your bag after you get back from your trip or send that urgent email before the weekend (by the way, on Thursdays). We all tend to procrastination. And thanks to a research team from Inserm, AP-HP and Brain Institute who published their discovery in the journal Nature ConnectionsNow we know more about the reason for this behaviour.

according to Futura ScienceThe researchers were remarkably successful in identifying an area brain there is a decision Postponement of procedures. This is called the anterior cingulate cortex. A somewhat barbaric name to designate a region of the brain that constantly makes cost-benefit calculations between the efforts to be made and the positive repercussions of each action performed. He is in a way the accountant general. The marketing center of your everyday life.

To analyze this region of the brain, the French researchers asked 51 volunteers to take tests while their brain activity was recorded by magnetic resonance imaging. Participants had to assign a value to the rewards and efforts and then choose between receiving a small reward immediately after the test or a larger reward a few days later. On the same model, they had to choose (…)

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