Showing posts with label neuro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neuro. Show all posts
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Decision making

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Decisions are mostly intuitive, logical explanations catch-up milliseconds later ~ Robert Sapolsky [ link ]
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Neurolinguistic programming

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Hackers are sending messages over the Internet that bypass the usual centers for linguistic processing. They travel along the optic or aud...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

The feeling of discourse

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An MRI study reveals that emotion, not fact-sharing, promotes social interaction and facilitates interpersonal understanding. What rese...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Wisdom of insecurity

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In 1975, Baruch Fischoff identified a major obstacle to forming new memories ..ourselves. He found that people frequently underestimate how ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

A stroke of insight

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Or there and back again: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few neuroscientists would wish for: she had a stroke and witnesse...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Extraterrestrial adaptation

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Robert Sapolsky If an alien creature invaded earth by entering the brain of human beings, hijacking their nervous system and driving them...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

The advantages of ADD

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The kind of focused attention ordinarily required in a classroom is not all that helpful overcoming obstacles outside the classroom. A wider...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Quality of understanding

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“The meaning of a sentence is derived from the original words by an active, interpretive process. The original sentence that is perceived is...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Narrative space

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Proceedings from the Symposium on Extraterrestrial Psychology Dr. Latimer: Language is nothing more than a stream of symbols that signify n...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

Working memory

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It was interesting for me to see a recent study in neuroscience that supports my theory of reading comprehension ~~> [Pragmatic inference...
Friday, April 23, 2010

In praise of the homemaker

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“The triumph of man was due entirely to the female of our species.” ~ Harold Klawans MD I wonder when ‘child rearing’ was relegated to a les...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Interdependence

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I am always fascinated to see how the observations of early Eastern Philosophers, in this case the teaching of interdependence between sent...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Ancestry

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HOMAGE TO THE TREE SHREW It is interesting for me to learn how much the tree shrew can tell us about human nature. They were one of the f...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Streaming music

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Investigators have uncovered a subconscious ‘stream of music’ running through my head. It contains mostly fragments of old songs I heard wh...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

The goggle story

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The same forces that bind the atomic particles of my eyes also hold together the planets and stars in outer space. A slight shift in balance...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Altered states

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Notes from Cuzco, Peru ~ April 1977 On the slopes of the Andes, in a yurt overlooking a sage-green valley, I’m participating in a peyote cer...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Self medication

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I’ve learned through experience that delusions, brought on by capricious mental activity, are best left ignored. Like passing clouds, there...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Slipstream

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There’s a stream running through my head. I sit and watch it go by ~ one instance after another. When I try to push it ~ or tweak it ~ I dis...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Buddha road

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Buddha’s observations on the nature of the mind come closer to modern-day neuroscience than any other philosophy I’ve read ..and his investi...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Synæsthesia

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I wake up with badly congested information-channels ~ I see shifting patterns of different colors entering an open window ~ and watch the wa...