Posts Tagged ‘perception’
 
 
 
Sci2Art
 

Flow in the Zone 2013

A Global Perspective on the Inner Experience of the Traditional Artist ‘Flow’ is a widely referenced concept characterized as “a mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, ...
 
brain experiments
 

Good ol’ RasMol: Molecular modeling for the masses

                  Chemical effects on the brain are both fascinating and necessary for survival. Endogenous neuromodulators and neurotransmitters and their receptors are switches whi...
 
 
abnormal psych
 

Will what is missing solve consciousness?

              In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...
 

 
abnormal psych
 

Technology, Entertainment, Design Talks

TED Talks Has anyone not heard of TED Talks? Apparently, because I still often find people who respond to mention of TED Talks in a way that reminds me of the old joke about medical students: Why do medical students have hunche...
 
 
brain imaging
 
"Walter J Freeman MBSci Scientific Advisory Board"
"Walter J Freeman MBSci Scientific Advisory Board"
"Walter J Freeman MBSci Scientific Advisory Board"

Walter J. Freeman: How Brains Generate Meaning

Walter J. Freeman III, MD, PhD is an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher who has conducted pioneering research in how brains generate meaning. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Member, Grad...
 
 
Cool Runnings
 

Putting the weird back into the hard

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon with the kind of weirdness we have come to appreciate in worlds of the Planck regime. The search for understanding in consciousness science leaves no formalism unexamined. Serious people are...
 

 
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...
 
Why Con
 
"Activate Mastery"
"Activate Mastery"
"Activate Mastery"

Ask Questions. Activate Mastery.

“…to understand the mind one must understand the brain.”
 
Sci2Art
 
"Moran Cerf Sci2Art Photo Perception Collage"
"Moran Cerf Sci2Art Photo Perception Collage"
"Moran Cerf Sci2Art Photo Perception Collage"

Moran Cerf, PhD: Perception Squared

  Moran Cerf, Ph.D., is neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology (‘Caltech’), UCLA department of neurosurgery and New York University. Dr. Cerf studies the neural basis of consciousness. His research fo...

 
 
Scicon Review
 

Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain with Music

Enjoy this short, amusing video on the power of our human brain with regard to music. From: Ted.com Interesting comments: Jeff Weir Dec 4 2010: I think beyond the “predictive” nature of the human brain, there lies t...