The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So literally in the front and it's involved in what we call top- down processing. Top-down processing is the way that your prefrontal cortex and other areas of the brain can control or suppress a reflex. You tell yourself, I want to do this or I should do this or even though I don't want to, I'm going to do it anyway.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
But the prefrontal cortex is this amazing capacity of our brain real estate to create meaning to attach meaning and purpose to things that otherwise are just reflexive.