VVG CORTEXAN INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE ATLASWatch the narrated film ↗

MEMORY IN SERVICE OF JUDGMENT

Institutional decision memory.

See how evidence is encoded, connected and recalled—then brought into a decision whose outcome informs the next one.

LOADING CORTEX
Anatomical cortical surface with labeled memory and decision pathways

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ANTERIOR / PREFRONTALPOSTERIOR / ASSOCIATION
THE BRAIN IS THE ANATOMICAL REFERENCE.

Colored anchors explain functional analogies. Vector search and the knowledge graph are shared software infrastructure. Human judgment remains outside the automated system.

DISTINCT RETRIEVAL FACULTIES

Thirteen ways to recall.
One decision context.

Each faculty retrieves a different kind of evidence from shared stores. Select one to locate its role.

What the model represents · sources & implementation status

This is an explanatory model, not live telemetry or a neurological simulation. Cortical functions are distributed; marker positions are interpretive anchors, not a one-to-one map of software modules to anatomical areas. The internal binding loops are schematic. The surface includes the cerebrum, not a complete segmented brain.

The atlas illustrates the relationships among source intake, vector and graph representations, distinct memory faculties, executive control, human judgment and governed learning.

Anatomical geometry: FreeSurfer fsaverage5 pial surfaces distributed through Nilearn, transformed and annotated. MGH license and attribution.