August 2011
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Neurowissenschaften Bücher
Couldn’t resist… One of the psychology books I wanted was on sale for $5.00! [Regular price is $70.00]. The only catch was I needed to spend at least $20.00, so I also bought a social neuroscience book… After the 20% discount code, I saved a total of $80.00.
Looking forward to reading these 2 new reference books. :)
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“Finchè c’è vita c’è speranza.”
– Proverbio italiano // Italienisches Sprichwort
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“Was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden.”
– Deutsche Sprichwort
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“I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.”
– Adam Savage
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Technology // Is Technology Stealing Our (Self)...
Our self-identities, that is, how we define and see ourselves as unique individuals, play a vital role in who we are and the direction that our lives take. The self-identity encompasses the totality of knowledge and understanding that we gain about ourselves as we develop including our personalities, aptitudes and capabilities, intellectual and physical attributes, interests, and relationships.
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“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to...”
– Guy de Maupassant
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Residents of the brain . Scientists turn up...
By classifying neurons based on shape and behavior, scientists may get a handle on which cells do what in the brain.
Peer out the window of a plane landing at LaGuardia Airport, and the tiny people scurrying around the streets of New York City all look the same. But take a stroll down Fifth Avenue and a new view emerges: Up close, New Yorkers are very different.
A street view of the brain ...
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Neural Signature of 'Mental Time Travel': Memories... →
metaconscious:
Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have provided the first neurobiological evidence that memories formed in the same context become linked, the foundation of the theory of episodic memory.
“What seems to be happening is that when patients recall a...
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Common thinking traps →
thanatesque:
1. Mind reading: You assume that you know what people think without having sufficient evidence of their thoughts. For example: “He thinks I’m a loser.” 2. Fortune telling: You predict the future—that things will get worse or that there is danger ahead. For example: “I’ll fail that exam” or “I won’t get the job.” 3. Catastrophizing: You believe that what has happened or will happen...
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First Artificial Neural Network Created out of... →
metaconscious:
ScienceDaily (July 20, 2011) — Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence — not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube. The researchers...
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. ...”
– Franz Kafka
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Food Reward in the Absence of Taste Receptor... →
Food palatability and hedonic value play central roles in nutrient intake. However, postingestive effects can influence food preferences independently of palatability, although the neurobiological bases of such mechanisms remain poorly understood. Of central interest is whether the same brain reward circuitry that is responsive to palatable rewards also encodes metabolic value independently of...
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REM sleep and creativity →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
wearetherabbits:
Sleep helps the process by which creativity forms associative elements into new combinations that are useful or meet some requirement. This occurs in REM sleep rather than in NREM sleep. Memory processes has been attributed to changes during REM sleep in cholinergic and noradrenergic. ‘’During REM sleep high levels of acetylcholine in the hippocampus...
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Zoomable Milky Way →
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Extreme Planet Makeover →
fuckyeahtheuniverse:
Create your own planet!
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“The scientists demonstrated that the act of remembering changes our memories. A...”
– Jonah Lehrer, American journalist who writes on the topics of psychology and neuroscience, Memory is Fiction, The Frontal Cortex, June 4, 2010. (via amiquote)
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Psychologists use fMRI to understand ties between... →
(June 2007) - Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and imagine the future are strikingly similar. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to show the brain at work, they have observed the same regions activated in a similar pattern whenever a person remembers an event from the past or imagines himself in a future situation. This challenges long-standing...
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Human Connectome Project » understanding how... →
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(Click image to go to the Human Connectome Project) Mapping of the human connectome offers a unique opportunity to understand the complete details of neural connectivity. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is a project to construct a map of the complete structural and functional neural connections in vivo within and across ...
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Myths and Realities about the Brain →
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As a result of the misinformation presented by various media, many people maintain misconceptions about the brain and brain function. The problem may be compounded by textbooks for middle school students that present little, if any, scientific information on the brain as the organ that controls human behavior. As a result, students may build their understanding of the...
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First evidence that birds tweet using grammar |... →
They may not have verbs, nouns or past participles, but birds challenge the notion that humans alone have evolved grammatical rules.
Bengal finches have their own versions of such rules – known as syntax – says Kentaro Abe of Kyoto University, Japan. “Songbirds have a spontaneous ability to process syntactic structures in their songs,” he says.
To show a sense of syntax in the animals, Abe’s...
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