Community | October 09, 2011 | 4 comments

A Fold in the Brain Linked to Keeping Reality and Imagination Separate, Study Finds

source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/07/a-fold-in-the-brain-is-linked-to-keepin...

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From the linked article:
" The researchers looked at MRI brain scans of a large group of healthy adults. In particular, they were looking for the paracingulate sulcus (PCS), a fold near the front of the brain. There’s a lot of variability in the PCS: some people have quite distinctive folds, others have barely any. It’s in a part of the brain known to be important in keeping track of reality, which is why the researchers chose to study it. Of the 53 people selected for the study, some had this fold on both sides of their brain, some had it on one side, and some had no fold.
The participants saw some full well-known word pairs (“Jekyll and Hyde”) and some half pairs (“Jekyll and ?”). If they only saw half of a pair, they were asked to imagine the other half (“Hyde”). After each pair or half pair, either the participant or the experimenter said the whole pair aloud.
Once they’d seen all the pairs, the participants were asked two questions about each phrase: Did you see both words of the pair, or just one? And who said the phrase aloud, you or the experimenter?
People who didn’t have the fold on either side of their brains did worse on both questions—remembering if something was real or imagined, and remembering who’d done something—than people whose brains had the fold. But they felt as confident in their answers, meaning they didn’t realize they’d been mixing up internal and external events."


Actually, this explains a lot about the political divide and so much more. But how do we adjust for the reality that some people can't tell reality from imaginary? Well, other than taking certain reality challenged tv 'news' stations off the air? For sure TPTB know about all this and use it to sell their imaginary hate triggers to enough people to keep us all busy trying to debunk Hoarder Class agenda fostering mythos.
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4 comments // A Fold in the Brain Linked to Keeping Reality and Imagination Separate, Study Finds

  • chew_chew
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      chew_chew  

    • This is a really interesting article! I read it and bookmarked it, and will go back to follow all the links as I have time. Makes me want to do more research on my own... more reading, not cutting brains open. ;-)

      I appreciate you posting this, attila.

      Wonder how (if at all) this may affect creativity, too?

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
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      attilatheblond  
    • chew_chew:

      Seem to recall reading that Einstein's brain had much more folds and such than other brains. One might suppose the more folds, the brighter the brain? The more folds, the more the likelihood for finding more connections? It was something that intrigued me long ago. Seems it might be time to take up the topic again.

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
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      attilatheblond  

    • Let's see, there has been a gene associated with 'belief' and now a brain fold that helps us see reality v imaginary friends like FAUX whistle ass talking points. Pogo was right. But how do we fix this shortcoming so many have? It is obviously being exploited by some people with less than honorable intentions.

    • 8 months ago
  • deane
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