Found: The Particular Brain Fold That Helps People Distinguish Between Imagination and Reality
Did you actually open the refrigerator a few minutes ago, or were you just thinking about it and imagined that you did? If you can remember correctly, you might have an extra fold in your brain. A fold in the front brain called the paracingulate sulcus, or PCS, can apparently help people more accurately remember whether something was imagined or really happened, or which person actually said something. It's one of the final structural folds to develop before birth, and its size varies greatly in the general population, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. People with the fold were significantly better at memory tasks than people without the fold, the researchers say. Related ArticlesAccording to New Study, fMRI Brain Scans May Predict Your Behavior Better Than You Can Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Boost Visual Memory 110 PercentNew Brain-Protecting Compound Works in Rats; Could Make Alzheimer's a Distant MemoryTagsScience, Rebecca...