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Causal role of prefrontal cortex in the threshold for access to consciousness
A. Del Cul, S. Dehaene, P. Reyes, E. Bravo, A. Slachevsky Article in Brain Abstract What neural mechanisms support our conscious perception of briefly presented stimuli? Some theories of conscious access postulate a key role of...
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Learning, Arts, and the Brain: the Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition
From the Dana Foundation: The Dana Foundation released at a news conference on March 4, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a three-year study at seven universities, which finds strong links between arts education and cognitive deve...
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Gamma oscillations mediate stimulus competition and attentional selection in a cortical network model
Christoph Börgers, Steven Epstein, and Nancy J. Kopell Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA Abstract Simultaneous presentation of multiple stimuli can reduce the firing rates of neurons in extrastria...
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Art Teams With Science to Explain It All to You
From NY Times (Oct 31, 2008): The taste of a ripe tomato, the hook of a catchy song, the scent of a lover’s hair. What is it, exactly, that drives us to seek these things again and again? Neuroscientists who study perce...
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Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: Impact of intensive mental training
Heleen A. Slagter, Antoine Lutz, Lawrence L. Greischar, Sander Nieuwenhuis, and Richard J. Davidson. Article in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Abstract The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is...
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New vistas for alpha-frequency band oscillations
Palva S, Palva JM. Article in Trends in Neurosciences Abstract The amplitude of alpha-frequency band (8-14 Hz) activity in the human electroencephalogram is suppressed by eye opening, visual stimuli and visual scanning, whereas...
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Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation
Antoine Lutz, Heleen A. Slagter, John D. Dunne and Richard J. Davidson Review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, click here for full article Abstract: Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and...
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Comparison of event-related potentials in attentional blink and repetition blindess
In a recent study, Mika Koivisto and Antti Revonsuo compared the timing and mechanisms of attentional blink (AB) and repetition blindness (RB) directly during the same rapid serial visual presentation stream to examine th...
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Attention and consciousness: two distinct brain processes
Abstract of Attention and consciousness: two distinct brain processes, in TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences. The close relationship between attention and consciousness has led many scholars to conflate these processes. This article ...
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Learning to pay attention
By Rachel Jones Our sensory system is constantly bombarded with inputs, but owing to the brain’s finite processing power, we are forced to pay attention to only a tiny proportion of these inputs at any given time. In a new st...