Februar 2012
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Theta coupling between V4 and prefrontal cortex... →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Short-term memory requires communication between multiple brain regions that collectively mediate the encoding and maintenance of sensory information. It has been suggested that oscillatory synchronization underlies intercortical communication. Yet, whether and how distant cortical areas cooperate during visual memory remains elusive. We examined neural interactions...
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Ad men use brain scanners to probe our emotional... →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Neuromarketers are using MRI scanners and electrode caps to work out our hidden reactions to their adverts
The world’s biggest companies have got a new way of convincing you to buy their products – by getting inside your head. Brands including Google, Facebook and ITV are turning to mind-reading technology to help them develop products and create adverts that people like.
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“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot...”
– Carl Jung
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Detection of visuo-spatial working memory and... →
neuroticthought:
Here’s an interesting article studying the difference in brain activity between imagining and experiencing the same object.
Several brain regions involved in visual perception have been shown to also participate in non-sensory cognitive processes of visual representations. Here we studied the role of ventral visual pathway areas in visual imagery and working memory. We...
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Hearing metaphors activates brain regions involved... →
Linguists and psychologists have debated how much the parts of the brain that mediate direct sensory experience are involved in understanding metaphors. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, in their landmark work ‘Metaphors we live by’, pointed out that our daily language is full of metaphors, some of which are so familiar (like “rough day”) that they may not seem especially novel or striking. They...
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“As several new studies reveal, when it comes to sniffing each other, men are...”
– Sick People Smell Bad: Why Dogs Sniff Dogs, Humans Sniff Humans, and Dogs Sometimes Sniff Humans (via outofcontextscience)
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Mind reading technology transforms brainwaves into... →
metaconscious:
Computational models decode and reconstruct neural responses to speech.
The brain’s electrical activity can be decoded to reconstruct which words a person is hearing, researchers report today in PLoS Biology1.
Brian Pasley, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues recorded the brain activity of 15 people who were undergoing evaluation...
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Januar 2012
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Buying New Experiences, Not Things, Tied to... →
psychotherapy:
via Psych Central:
A new study suggests that those who spend money to do things are happier than those who spend their money on possessions.
In the study, investigators determined extraverts and people who are open to new experiences are more apt to spend more of their disposable income on experiences, such as concert tickets or a weekend away, rather than hitting the mall...
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Creative people daydream more, even while...
In 1966, my mentor and colleague, Jerome L. Singer , published his seminal book, Daydreaming: An Introduction to the Experimental Study of Inner Experience . Since then, the scientific study of daydreaming has taken off. A key theme that has emerged is the striking continuity between nightdreaming and daydreaming and the ability of creative people to harness this continuity. Neuroscience has...
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The Neuroscience Behind Near Death Experiences →
houseofmind:
So today I found a neuroscience review dealing with a far-out topic: the neuroscience underlying near death experiences (NDE) and other “paranormal” phenomena such as experiences seeing bright lights, meeting the dead or being convinced that you are dead.
According to Mobbs and Watt (2011), approximately 3% of Americans declare that they have had a near-death experience, which...
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Are you on my wavelength? →
You know how when you feel like you really connect with someone, you say you are on the same wavelength? When brain cells want to connect with each other, they synchronize their activity,” Colgin explains. “The cells literally tune into each other’s wavelength. We investigated how gamma waves in particular were involved in communication across cell groups in the hippocampus. What we found could...
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“This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a...”
– Carl Jung // Synchronicity . An Acausal Connecting Principle
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Imprisoned by the past: Unhappy moods lead to a... →
psychotherapy:
Evidence suggests that mind wandering is a frequent accompaniment to an unhappy mood. Building on such work, two laboratory experiments used mood induction to assess whether the greater frequency of mind wandering in a low mood is also accompanied by a shift towards a focus on events from the past. Experiment 1 induced moods via video and induction of an unhappy mood was associated...
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“Now, why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the...”
– Marcus Chown, award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine, The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms, Oxford University Press, 2001 (via amiquote)