Study: A Fold in the Brain is Linked to Keeping Reality and Imagination Separate

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55 points·ColinWright··9 comments

Hmmm ... growing up I had a friend that completely believed his own lies. And if you were present for some memorable event, you couldn't convince him that his memory of that event was incorrect. I'm guessing he was missing that fold!

And in some other discussion about this research, somewhere else, your friend is recounting the exact same conjecture... about you.

How could he possibly say that ... I've never lied ;)

That one's gonna keep me up at night.

LINKED:

"Not So Fast: The study only shows that the PCS and reality monitoring are linked, not that the presence or absence of the PCS is what causes some people to be better than others at this sort of memory task. It could be that another factor in brain development causes both small PCS and poor reality monitoring, for instance." (from the article)

I think the "Not So Fast" section was my favorite part of the article. You rarely see these reminders that science is a work in progress in popular science reporting. Particularly with regards to medicine, too often I see too much hype over the results of a single unrepeated study.

Am I the only who said to myself that this could have been discovered easily with some data mining on MRI pictures of patients with this disorder.. ?

You can't even read the paper, talk about publicly-funded research ...

Is that whats wrong with me!!!

Wow thats interesting reminds me of a show on TV while back the brain in love. It too had some very interesting scans and info on the brain.

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