Hera

Hera (Roman name: Juno), wife of Zeus and queen of the ancient Greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family.
Hera

Traditional interpretation

Hera (Roman name: Juno), wife of Zeus and queen of the ancient Greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family. However, she was perhaps most famous for her jealous and vengeful nature, principally aimed against the lovers of her husband and their illegitimate offspring.

How neuromythography uses

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Mickey Mouse is a Brain Area

Hera represents the BA9 medial dorsal posterior (9mdp) left .

Notes

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Left: motherhood, modesty, induction, vicarious reward experience

Leto was Zeus' favorite lover, mother of Apollo and Artemis, and goddess of motherhood and modesty.

Resources

3rd party moral judgment
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991864/

Cortical microcircuitry of performance monitoring - Nature Neuroscience
Concurrently recording neural spiking across cortical layers in a medial frontal area with EEG reveals the microcircuitry of error and reward signals, showing how neural circuits can realize executive control and produce error-related negativity.

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Beth Sheridan

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