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brainmatters-1000	Patel, Vraj	Swearing and the Brain: A Cultural and Emotional Experience	2025	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1371	86	49	Behavioral studies, brain imaging, and studies focused on brain pathologies have found that the right hemisphere activates during situations involving automatic emotional responses, specifically subcortical regions such as the right amygdala and thalamus, and visual areas such as the superior colliculus and pulvinar Swearing and the Brain: A Cultural and Emotional Experience Vraj Patel Abstract Swearing stems from functions involved in the brain, specifically automatic and emotional swearing. However, in the case of automatic swearing, the mPFC does not perform at its highest capabilities, and “the performance of the inhibitory guards deteriorates and the automatic swearing wins over” (Finkelstein, 2018).	cache/brainmatters-1000.pdf	txt/brainmatters-1000.txt