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sensing 'recency'

F. Frank LeFever flefever at ix.netcom.com
Sun Jul 25 22:59:00 EST 1999


In <#9#8Oml1#GA.122 at cpmsnbbsa05> "Ken Collins" <KPaulC at email.msn.com>
writes: 
>
- - - - - -(SNIP) - - - - - - - - -

 be-cause the ethnic Albanians did not understand
>how nervous systems process information via blind, automated TD
>E/I-minimization, they 'moved away from' the Serbian farmers by
killing
>them.


OH-h-h!  Glad you cleared that up!  I had been wondering why those nice
Albanians would do such a thing!

Clearing up another mystery: the heading of this post derives from my
response to Sturla, who didn't think that "mistaking the present for
the past" was very helpful as a diagnosis; not really a diagnosis, of
course, but a good dianostic lead (v. infra):


>F. Frank LeFever wrote in message
<7nd1l2$mto at dfw-ixnews16.ix.netcom.com>...
>>
>>Well, I don't know about "mistaking the present for the past", but
the
>>converse has been suggested as one basis for confabulation, which
often
>>implicates prefrontal cortex; and there are experimental data
>>implicating frontal cortex in "source" memory, especially "temporal
>>location" memory (I have presented some data on use of a "Recency
Test"
>>I developed specifically to assess this clinically).
>>
>>F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
>>New York Neuropsychdology Group
>>




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