Distinguish Between True And False In Daily Lives

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:13

There are many situations that may be true or false, which we encounter in day today life. Surprisingly many people are able to find out whether one situation is true or false. Most of the humans use two separate processes to determine the subtle distinctions between true and false in their daily lives.

When one faces a situation, the decision to judge whether a statement is true involves memory. On the other hand, determining whether one is false relies on reasoning and problem-solving processes. It proves that true and false sentences on brain activity.

True statements involved the left inferior parietal cortex and the caudate nucleus bilaterally. The former activation may be hypothesized to reflect continued thematic semantic analysis and a more extended memory search. The caudate activation may also reflect this search and matching processes as well as the fact that recognizing a sentence as true is in itself a positive reward for the subject, as this area is also involved in processing reward-related information.

When the differences between truth and falsehoods are clear-cut, people behave like relativists, and use similar processes to arrive at a decision. However, when differences are subtler, people adhere to a categorical distinction and use qualitatively different processes to decide what is true from false. A team of Portuguese and Italian researchers from the Universities of Lisbon and Vita-Salute, Milan, has conducted this study.

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