Posts Tagged ‘fMRI’
 
 
 
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...
 
 
art
 

ConneXions

From the website: Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create ...
 
 
MBSci
 
"Hakwan Lau mbSci Consciousness Online Higher Order Theory of Consciousness"
"Hakwan Lau mbSci Consciousness Online Higher Order Theory of Consciousness"
"Hakwan Lau mbSci Consciousness Online Higher Order Theory of Consciousness"

Consciousness Online: Hakwan Lau on the Higher-Order Theory of Consciousness

Hakwan Lau, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University and the Donders Institute, is interested in empirically testing philosophical theories of consciousness. In this talk he presents the results of his experiments that...

 
attention
 
"Zoran Josipovic mbSci Scientific Advisory Board Image"
"Zoran Josipovic mbSci Scientific Advisory Board Image"
"Zoran Josipovic mbSci Scientific Advisory Board Image"

Zoran Josipovic, PhD: The Functioning of Anti-Correlated Neural Networks

Dr. Zoran Josipovic is the Director/Principal Investigator of the Contemplative Science Lab, a Research Associate and an Adjunct Professor at Psychology Department and Center for Neural Science, New York University. His main in...
 
 
Why Con
 
"Brain Atlas Cap"
"Brain Atlas Cap"
"Brain Atlas Cap"

The Next Generation Brain Atlas

Brainmaps.org is the neuroscience analog, giving us the most detailed and complete set of images of the inner universe.
 
MBSci
 
"Your Cortex is Flat Maplike Image"
"Your Cortex is Flat Maplike Image"
"Your Cortex is Flat Maplike Image"

Your Cortex is Flat

The cortex is a flat sheet, shown beautifully here by Van Essen et al (see the Van Essen Lab at the University of St. Louis). This is the six-layered sheet of cells and fibers that makes up our cortex, the "neo-cortex" (because...

 
Studio One
 
the_feeling_brain
the_feeling_brain
the_feeling_brain

Scientific Integration + Media Synthesis = The Feeling Brain

Better communication in science and education can have vast ripple effects for advancing creativity, innovation, entrepreneurialism and humanity.
 
 
MBSci
 
"Laughter_by_David_Shankbone"
"Laughter_by_David_Shankbone"
"Laughter_by_David_Shankbone"

The Mind’s Laughter: fMRI from Japan.

Whether you know it or not, your brain acts out the words you hear. For example, a study led by Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University (Japan) shows that the motor cortex revs up in response to words like "belly laugh.”
 
Why Con
 
"3D Brain Diagram"
"3D Brain Diagram"
"3D Brain Diagram"

The Search for Me

With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are?

 
MBSci
 
"DTI Sagitall Fibers in the Living Brain"
"DTI Sagitall Fibers in the Living Brain"
"DTI Sagitall Fibers in the Living Brain"

The Midline of a Living Human Brain

fountain of long cell fibers explodes along the midline of the human brain. Computational neuroscientists study nervous systems in terms of their information processing capabilities.  Standing at the junction of computer scien...