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8-18-2008 3:12 PM
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Silkweaver says:
The answer is "both," according to researchers at The Johns Hopkins University, who have learned that two different areas of the brain are responsible for the way human beings handle complex sets of "if-then" rules.

"This discovery may eventually lead to enhanced understanding of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder, all conditions in which a person's ability to remember and change such rules is impaired,"

"This indicates that different parts of our brains store different kinds of memories and information," Courtney said. That, she said, "provides clues about how the human brain accomplishes complex, goal-directed behaviors that require remembering and changing abstract rules, an ability that is disrupted in many mental illnesses."
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8-19-2008 5:23 AM
SteveJohnSteele
in the picture above I see ...
St George on horse with lance and
Man on bench lifting weights
8-19-2008 6:36 AM
Silkweaver
Cool. Now when you mentioned it I see them both
It seems we can hold in our memories many simultaneous pictures/plans/views. The one that fits most a given situation, is selected.
8-19-2008 10:26 AM
tanyamm
You're right, they're both there.
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