Tuesday, March 18, 2014

White and Gray Matter

Pathological liars or inadvertent liars have considerably more white brain matter than others. This type of tissue allows the connections between the grey matter. The theory is that the greater connectivity more quickly races to a decision in response to an inquiry that would be convenienced by a lie and the lie feels right because the brain produced it so quickly. Now all we have to do is come up with an inexpensive way to measure the quantity of white matter compared to gray.

Loren M. Lambert © February 9, 2013

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