August 2012
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“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will – either by having nothing happen...”
– Paulo Coelho
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“In a second test, a researcher snuck up behind the penguin while it wasn’t...”
– How We Changed Penguins Just by Watching (via outofcontextscience)
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Why many people perceive psychology as... →
Whenever we psychologists dare to venture outside of the hallowed halls of academia or our therapy offices to that foreign land called the “real world,” we are likely at some point to encounter a puzzling and, for us, troubling phenomenon. Specifically, most of us will inevitably hear the assertion from laypersons that psychology—which those of us within the profession generally regard as the...
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“Your everyday experience tells you that your thoughts cause you to behave in...”
– Richard Wiseman tells the the truth about mind control: to get someone to believe in something you just have to make them behave as if they do and their mind will eventually develop beliefs that are consistent with those behaviors.
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“Whether we realize it or not, we are all dreaming the world into being. What...”
– Alberto Villoldo (via metaconscious)
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“70% of the food supply is absolute poison, evidenced by the fact that 100% of...”
– Food Fear, Food Labels, And My Two Cents (via outofcontextscience)
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What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality:... →
aminotes:
“Morality is not the product of a mythical pure reason divorced from natural selection and the neural wiring that motivates the animal to sociability. It emerges from the human brain and its responses to real human needs, desires, and social experience; it depends on innate emotional responses, on reward circuitry that allows pleasure and fear to be associated with certain...
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Sixth Sense
Perhaps you’ve lived this moment before. Perhaps you’re seeing yourself at a distance, as never before. Anomalous experiences are real and life-changing. That doesn’t mean they occur outside your own head.
Chances are, at some point in your life, you’ve felt someone staring at you. Maybe you were at the grocery store. Maybe walking along the sidewalk. Maybe sitting on a...
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Mechanisms of white matter changes induced by... →
neuroticthought:
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a noninvasive MRI-based technique that can delineate white matter fibers in vivo, measure white matter’s structural plasticity to demonstrate that training or learning alters brain white matter. Fractional anisotropy (FA) is an important index for measuring the integrity of white matter fibers. In general, a higher FA value has been related to...
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“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.
Carl Jung called...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via metaconscious)
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“In any timeline…”
– Eureka . Just Another Day
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GoogleX making a digital human brain →
neuroticthought:
Google’s brain used an array of 16,000 processors to create a neural network with more than one billion connections, and presented it with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos. Without any instructions or labels, it learned to detect faces, human bodies, and cats! This suggests that the human brain, which has at least a million times more connections than this...
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Butterflies Remember What They Learned as... →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
When a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, the transformation is so radical that it’s hard to believe they belong to the same species.
But regardless of the new wings and body, the new diet and airborne lifestyle, butterflies remember what they learned as babies.
In a study published yesterday in Public Library of Science ONE, Georgetown University biologists gave mild...
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France
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“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation—in fairy...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés (via metaconscious)
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A Father's Love Is One of the Greatest Influences... →
psychotherapy:
A father’s love contributes as much — and sometimes more — to a child’s development as does a mother’s love. That is one of many findings in a new large-scale analysis of research about the power of parental rejection and acceptance in shaping our personalities as children and into adulthood.
“In our half-century of international research, we’ve not found any other class of...
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