Paul’s Blog

I presume that as we move forward in time along experience data, broad classifications of initial impressions (internal value attributions, beliefs, interpretations) become increasingly detailed, as with an anisotropic filter.  Radial branches from the event origin map more or less with other event origins like twigs off main branches, according to similarity algorithms.  But when we discover dissonance or correct ourselves, do we begin a new tract, or simply veer?

So how (??) does that relate to the finding (from the Journal of Neuroscience*) that…

A voxel-based whole-brain level linear regression analysis was performed to relate fractional anisotropy to indices of true and false memory recall and recognition. True memory was correlated to diffusion anisotropy in the inferior longitudinal fascicle, the major connective pathway of the medial temporal lobe, whereas a greater proneness to retrieve false items was related to the superior longitudinal fascicle connecting frontoparietal structures

* The Journal of Neuroscience, July 8, 2009, 29(27):8698-8703; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5270-08.2009