Januar 2011
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“In a study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in...”
– Phys Ed: Brains and Brawn (via alastriona)
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This Is Your Brain On Metaphors →
kleinbottle:
“….Another example of how the brain links the literal and the metaphorical comes from a study by Lawrence Williams of the University of Colorado and John Bargh of Yale. Volunteers would meet one of the experimenters, believing that they would be starting the experiment shortly. In reality, the experiment began when the experimenter, seemingly struggling with an armful of folders,...
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The Neuroscience of Music (Frontal Cortex) →
psychotherapy:
Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. The stories it tells are all subtlety and subtext. And yet, even though music says little, it still manages to touch us deep, to tickle some universal nerves. When listening to our favorite songs, our body betrays all the symptoms of emotional arousal. The...
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“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine...”
– V S Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain.
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Science (Non-)Fiction: Advances in Memory Research
Scientists are close to turning the far-out memory tricks of fantasy flicks into reality. Someday, our memories may be selectively erased, enhanced, or recorded in our sleep.
Imagine slapping a few electrodes on your scalp and flipping a switch for instantly better powers of recall. Scientists at Temple University did just that - they applied a weak electrical current to healthy people’s...
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Nature: Oxytocin increases trust in humans →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
An article from 2005 about trust and its neuro-hormonal basis, oxytocin:
Trust pervades human societies1, 2. Trust is indispensable in friendship, love, families and organizations, and plays a key role in economic exchange and politics3. In the absence of trust among trading partners, market transactions break down. In the absence of trust in a country’s institutions and...
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Mirror neurons →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
jukeboxsami asked: I have been collecting data recently on something that I have found to be kind of interesting. I first noticed it with my grandmother and then subsequently noticed it in other people, specifically the elderly. When I speak to my grandmother or others that I notice with the same ‘habit’ I guess we can call it for now, when I speak to them they move...
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Is This Your Brain on God? [NPR] →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had...
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“The number of possible “on-off” patterns of neuronal firing is immense,...”
– Daniel J. Seigel- The Developing Mind, 1999 (via houseofmind)
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BBC iPlayer - The Brain: A Secret History: Mind... →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
In a compelling and at times disturbing series, Dr Michael Mosley explores the brutal history of experimental psychology.
To begin, Michael traces the sinister ways this science has been used to try to control our minds. He finds that the pursuit of mind control has led to some truly horrific experiments and left many casualties in its wake. Extraordinary archive...
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Follow up to people living without brains:
fuckyeahneuroscience:
thetreacheroustorturoussea came up with: Baby born without brain turns 2
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imminenteminence sent in: Bilateral visual field maps in a patient with only one hemisphere.
thanks guys!
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Cognition, Sex Differences, and Simon Baron-Cohen →
houseofmind:
The idea that there are cognitive differences between men and women, especially when it comes to math and science, has become widely accepted and mainstream, thanks largely in part to Simon Baron-Cohen’s hypothesis that there are “male brains” built to understand mechanical systems (which would be handy for things like math, science, and engineering) and “female brains”, hard-wired...
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Do compulsive/pathological liars have different... →
houseofmind:
The answer is yes. Numerous studies have converged in designating prefrontal white matter as the likely culprit behind all the lies. This increase in prefrontal white matter is also found in individuals that lie, cheat and manipulate others. Sounds bad…
Back in 2005, Yang et. al found an abnormal prefrontal white matter increase in the brains of pathological liars. The group...
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Anatomically distinct dopamine release during... →
lowbroweye:
Nature Neuroscience:
Our results provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first direct evidence that the intense pleasure experienced when listening to music is associated with dopamine activity in the mesolimbic reward system, including both dorsal and ventral striatum. This phylogenetically ancient circuitry has evolved to reinforce basic biological behaviors with high adaptive...
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Social Animal (The New Yorker) →
We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner working of the human mind. Far from being dryly materialistic, their work illuminates the rich underwater world where character is formed and wisdom grows. They are giving us a...
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“The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are...”
– Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 248. (via amiquote)
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