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Brain mechanisms that distinguish imagination from reality discovered

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-brain-mechanisms-distinguish-reality.html
5•mdp2021•8mo ago

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mdp2021•8mo ago
Though not really as the title may suggest:

> the strength of activity in the fusiform gyrus could predict whether people judged an experience as real or imagined, irrespective of whether it actually was real

So, it's more like "Brain mechanisms that shows belief that experience is within reality, as opposed to imagination, discovered".

> ...sometimes when participants imagined very vividly, activation of the fusiform gyrus was very strong and participants confused their imagination for reality