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THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MISINFORMATION: How the Brain Processes Fake News
🧠 The Neuroscience of Misinformation
We live in an age where truth competes with speed.
Information arrives before verification, and the brain — wired to react faster than it reflects — becomes vulnerable to what feels true, not necessarily to what is true.
Misinformation doesn’t spread because people are naive.
It spreads because the human brain is efficient.
Marcela Emilia Silva do Valle Pereira Ma Emilia
Nov 129 min read


BRAIN AND INVENTED REALITY: How the Brain Distinguishes the Real from the Artificial (or not)
Brain and Invented Reality
We live in the era of overlapping realities.
Between what is seen, what is edited, and what is invented, the human brain is being forced to do something it was never designed for: to distinguish the real from the artificial.
After all, the brain wasn’t born for deepfakes, AI filters, or mixed realities.
Neuroscience is showing that separating the false from the convincing isn’t easy.
And that, in practice, the mind doesn’t seek truth — it seek
Marcela Emilia Silva do Valle Pereira Ma Emilia
Nov 105 min read
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