the one neuroscience term you need to know

[Jonathan Lighter]

2012 _New Yorker_ (June 7):  The anterior cingulate cortex...is typically
associated with the perception of errors and contradictions -
neuroscientists refer to it as part of the "Oh shit!" circuit."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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