Posts Tagged ‘brain research’
 
 
 
brain experiments
 

R: free software programming language for statistics and graphics

              Statistical analysis has been a bête noire for many students in neuroscience. And yet of all the maths available, statistical analysis has been the real work horse for neuroscie...
 
 
altered states
 

Mental physics

                          Mullah Nasruddin embodies the way of the wise fool to which one aspires  with increasing maturity: One day, people saw Mullah Nasruddin...
 
 
basal ganglia
 

A 20 micron resolution 3D map of a human brain

            Resolution is now often measured in pixels, but the more familiar method is to use measures of distance. Resolution is not the same as size, although the two terms are sometimes conflat...
 

 
brain experiments
 

What chance do we have of understanding your thought, Reverend Bayes?

    http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes From the site:    While there are a few existing online explanations of Bayes’ Theorem, my experience with trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that the e...
 
 
brain experiments
 

NOVA beta

Please put away your books and notes, it’s time for a quiz. Circle the answer below which best represents the date of the first computer. 1822  CE 70  BCE 1206  CE 1941  CE 2700  BCE Depending on your perspective, and wh...
 
 
altered states
 

If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?

This weblog – http://www.consciousentities.com/ – authored by Peter Hankins started as an attempt to quickly dispense with the problems that others were having with consciousness – a few pithy, essays, world enlig...
 

 
bookreview
 

The best explanation of DSP

  I submit that acronyms are a plague upon our civilization and should be banned. Some acronyms, by being daily in the media, such as HIV, are probably recognized by most people as… what? Something bad, certainly, but ho...
 
 
Cool Runnings
 

FracLac for ImageJ

Audrey Karperien’s lab at  the School of Community Health, Faculty of Science, Charles Stuart University, Australia has given us a free fractal, multifractal and lacunarity analysis suite called FracLac, a plugin for Image J...
 
 
abnormal psych
 

What I did on my summer vacation: mind hacks

When faced with a huge task, a truly humungous task which stretches out over the horizon and with no sensible timely end – bailing out the ever-expanding oceans with a tea spoon is a commonly thought of example – it’s...
 

 
basal ganglia
 

Play the Name the Brain Game

At last, Cool Runnings brings you something you have always wanted: an interactive web site which will teach you 91 brain structures! The head-, neck-, spine- and brainchild of Brett Young, MD, at the site’s birth a neuroradi...