It’s just one study, and the researchers urge that their results will need to be confirmed before anything definitive can be said here. But the hippocampus was quiet instead, the researchers observed activity in the frontal regions of the brain, areas associated with decision-making. If, as the current hypothesis goes, déjà vu is the birth of a false memory, then as this was going on you’d expect to see activity in the hippocampus, which is involved with memory formation. The study volunteers gave their answers from inside an fMRI, allowing the researchers to scan their brains while they went through that mental tug-of-war (“I think I’ve heard that before - but I couldn’t have! But, no, I think I have!”). They felt like they’d heard the word, but they knew from the s question that they couldn’t have - still, they really felt like they had! Déjà vu, all over again. Later, they asked them whether or not they’d heard the word sleep - and this brought on a confusing pattern of thoughts.
No, the volunteers answered (correctly), they hadn’t. (They didn’t.) But these researchers modified this experiment: After reading the list, they asked their volunteers if they’d heard a word beginning with s.
They borrowed this from scientists who study false memories, because when you give people this list, and then ask them later if they recall hearing the word sleep, they tend to say that, yes, they did hear the word sleep. So will everything that has come with the surge, they said - such as the return of long lines at mass testing sites in places like Massachusetts, the number of open intensive care unit beds dwindling down to single digits in places like Arkansas and hard-hit states such as Texas begging for travel nurses to help with the swell in hospitalizations there.The researchers read their volunteers a series of related words: bed, pillow, night, duvet. The experts said they anticipated that this wave of Covid-19 cases will get worse before it gets better. They think because they can’t see you, you can’t see them.” How to avoid a worst-case scenario “Is it a strong sense of denial that we are in the midst of a dangerous pandemic? It’s like dealing with a 2-year-old who puts their hands over their eyes when they’re playing hide-and-seek. “I’m truly confounded by what his rationale is for disallowing masks at schools,” Carnethon added. She predicted that DeSantis’ plan would lead to inevitable classroom closures that masks might have prevented. Without masks in Florida schools, she said, the chances of the coronavirus spreading in classrooms is much higher, especially given that the Covid-19 vaccine is still only available to children ages 12 and up.
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